Never Let Your Secrets Drift

Where did all my dearest dreams of yesterday go?

Had hid it secretly in my own colossal sand castle

 Born to many hours of labor of love, day and night

Sun dipping down the horizon has been my witness

 The dream castle I built was really very big and tall

Big strong fort I built around it made me a promise

 Not to let any friend or enemy to come inside or prowl

Promise I heard when I mixed all the sand for the fort

 With sea shells, fish bones, and stones, small and big

Glued them with my own spit, hopes and secret wishes

 Tender kiss and a secret whisper to every handful of sand

Will never utter the secret, as dreams are meant to be ours

 Never to be told to any soul, however close, it may pretend

For any reason at all, and not even the colorful butterfly

 Never the pretty birds that chirp all day at each other

Birds have never known at all the art of keeping a secret

 Bees will always buzz all your secrets away, to each other

While visiting from flower to flower in the whole garden

 Many times wander to all other gardens around the forest

Not even the ants following each other up and down the trees

 "A secret that is let out to drift is no more a secret"

Guard it from everyone who may try to eves drop on the mind

 As my mother always used to say, as I sat sad on her lap

When my mind drifted away to fly with the dream angels

 Seeing my face looking down, and couple drops in my eyes

"Never let your soul cry when your dreams wash away "

 When the tall waves flirt with the shore to kiss the sand

Quietly recede as if nothing ever happened, to come again

 Many of your dreams are meant to remain only as dreams

For they are your own secrets, in your soul, to treasure

 For they are purer and prettier, like a virgin, unseen

Hide it, and guard it, to quietly let it all wash ashore

 Back into the vast ocean that hides everyone's secrets

The secrets anyway really came from the depths of the ocean.

~KRS Murthy~

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