The Secret Sharer's Reaction
Heather has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Moravian College and has been freelance writing for more than 12 years.
Have become focused on maintaining the few social relationships
Allowed with the current climate of CDC guidelines
Avoided the reality that some long suspected truths
Might be revealed while in somewhat closer quarters
Than simply hanging out over the occasional neighborly meal
Didn't think that the informational dam would be burst open
So unexpectedly and become tied up in a narrative such as this
How does someone think that they have a great story to tell
Based on the facts, figures and variables that have come into play
Realized very quickly during this semi-confessional what was going on
Caught on early due to certain turns of a few phrases what was happening
Alarm bells going off inside a shocked brain; it was too late to run away
Felt it would have been rude to get up and leave the premises
Partially checked out mentally while cringing on the inside of the news
Pretended to be engaged in the conversation to cover up horrified reaction
Don't be under misconceived notion that it was a crime worthy of Dateline
Just a story as old as time and has been done to death on Daytime TV
Wondered why this neighborly conversation turned into an episode
With a similar but really tired script of the same notions played to death
That this tawdry tale was the most epic thing since Gone With the Wind
Being meant to be happening and all that repetitive hogwash
Not realizing that they have cheapened their self worth in the process
A morality play and a sacrificing of your credibility in the offering
Trying not to reveal your true feelings to the matter with false assurances
That their "story" was safe with you and trying to process your reaction
In the privacy of your own mind and your own home
Wondering if you gave off some kind of internal signal unintentionally
You were willing to know and become a supporting player on the sidelines
Wished you knew what that was; so you could go back in time
Smack yourself for doing such a thing
Unsure of how to proceed with the facts of the case
Don't want to be a stereotypical representative of the morality police
They're old enough to know better; just seemed to have blinders on
Taking it one day at a time before developing a game plan
Hopefully, you won't be pulled into learning more unexpected tidbits
In the meantime, fingers crossed that no more revelations will come.
Comments
BRENDA ARLEDGE from Washington Court House on May 04, 2020:
Oh my...what a predicament to be stuck inside with no way to run away or turn the clock back.
Steady with the game plan with details kept to yourself...don't need neighbors to be at your back.
Good write