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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.
Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.
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Prompt: Secrets
What do you think about secrets and keeping secrets? If a secret would be against your morals or beliefs or if it was about hurting someone or a group of people, would you still keep it?
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I can keep secrets just fine but if a secret has to do with hurting someone else or going against my country or something too harmful to the person who tells me of his secret (i.e. something like he's planning a suicide), I won't keep that secret and I'll tell that to the person who wants me to keep such a secret or to the authorities.
Yet, at times, secrets connect people. Those are gentle things, such as a surprise party, a close friend's whispered crush, a private dream or a not-fully-thought out endeavor. Not all secrets, however, are harmless. Some have weight and they carry a burden. Plus, the longer they are kept, the heavier they become. Such secrets can create walls among people, since they may be born from fear, guilt, or pain. These grow more shadowy, the longer they are hidden.
This had me thinking about friends who told me secrets, then cut me off because they felt uneasy about my knowing their secrets. So, I believe there's a fine line between what's private and what's secret. A secret is a lock on a door whereas privacy is personal space, a boundary. We all have the right to keep parts of ourselves private. Consequently, secrets that fester can turn into a silence that harms any relationship.
Still, keeping a secret for someone shows trust. It is my form of loyalty and love. On the other hand, what if keeping a certain secret causes harm or what if it goes against my values?
This means not everything has to be shared to be real, which points to the fact that some secrets are about power. The power of what a person chooses to reveal and what that person decides to guard and their power over the person they told their secret to.
As to the secrets themselves, some are worth keeping, but some need the light. I believe, knowing the difference between the two has to do with wisdom.
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Lyn, and I have to learn a lot from you guys, too, no matter my thick skull has gotten even thicker nowadays.
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