If I pulled this key from the back of my throat
With a bloodied string and opened the lock,
Would you listen to the melody my secrets will sing?
Whisper them slowly into the darkness, let your breath
Brush slightly across my skin, sending the curtains
Fluttering in the wind and the moonlight will filter
In through my broken window and you will carve
Your initials into my skin with shattered glass and
I will not cry but I’ll tie this bloody key and string
Around your neck and choke you with the words
That I  so willingly refused to speak. Me and you,
We’ll fly through that break in the sky that leads us
Straight into an empty cavity full of loneliness and
We’ll whisper in each other’s ears how it was always
Going to be ‘alright’ even when we were alone.
The silence up here is so deafening that I can’t even
Hear the song that my hidden secrets are singing to me
But your sobbing is so quiet and it’s ringing in my ears
Would these whispered words wipe away those tears?
I do hope so, really, I do.  I know that secrets can hurt
But I love them; how they blind me with such truthful lies.
Yet I am afraid of releasing something hidden within me
Afraid of rejection, denial, and false accusations.
Well, here is the key, gift wrapped in my own blood
So please take the time to listen to those secret songs
I’m sure you will learn so much about me that you never knew
Whisper them lovingly into the darkness and let the words
Roll slowly off your tongue in sweet syllables that make me shudder
With fear and chills will run down my spine when the curtains flutter
Because it’s getting cold outside with the moon shining upon us
But you’ll take your secrets and wrap them so tightly around my body
So let us lay together, in the darkness, listening to our silent songs
And for once--we’ll understand what it means to be in love and
To know each other’s deepest secrets so well that we’re afraid
To even whisper them to the stars who can keep anything silent.