11 thoughts on “Excuse Me”

1. The results of losing control of a secret are usually not good…(K)

   • Yes. At least for the person whose secret it is. There is such an urge to tell someone your secret, and yet by doing so it risks becoming un-secret, and yet you do it anyway. I am interested in this urge, everyone has it. To have secrets, know secrets, and tell secrets.

     • There are also those things you keep secret about yourself that you would like to tell someone but don’t know how. I have experienced this myself, and seen others caught up in it. It gets harder and harder the longer you wait.

       • Yes, that is so true. It’s as if the secret gets heavier and larger and harder to carry.

2. Awesome little poem! I wonder if the other library patrons know what you are up to while you sit there 😉

   • Thank you. To be honest, I think (since the other Montco patrons are mostly young college aged people) I am invisible to them, being an old lady!

3. The revelation of some secrets certainly can be explosive. I have experience of having to share a historic secret that really blew some things up. I am generally, however, a very good secret-keeper and people know they can trust me to keep their confidence.

   • I am poor at keeping secrets though I try so hard, but I am a blurter. What’s on my mind has usually gotten said, but in my later years I am better at it than I used to be. Still, you have been warned.

     • What’s strange about me as that I can keep someone else’s secret with ease but I have no internal edit or filter when it comes to things that pop into my head spewing forth from my mouth.

4. I’m a pretty good secret keeper – but sometimes it can slip – like a grenade carelessly dropped….

   • Yes. The whole subject of secrets is a surprisingly violent one, since revealing them so often has intense consequences, I think.

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