A Well-Kept Secret 

 

I had a tiny little secret once,

 

That I kept hidden for months. 

 

To make my secret a top-secret, I shared it with one of my friends, 

 

And took a promise from her to never share it with anyone else. 

 

She was indeed my best friend, so I trusted her, 

 

Will she ever tell it to anyone was my only fear. 

 

Every day I would ask her if our secret was safe;

 

I called her from different phones many a time,

 

I wanted to check whether she spills the beans or keeps them fine.

 

Like a true friend, she kept my secret to herself, 

 

I was so proud of her that I told her another secret. 

 

To remember both the secrets she called me every day, 

 

Sometimes she got confused and mixed them anyway. 

 

So I had to write down those secrets to her on letterhead,

 

She would read it every day before going to bed. 

 

She promised to not share the secret with anybody else, 

 

I believed her because I knew she could forget it any day. 

 

It was such a high profile secret for both of us,

 

The thrill of keeping it cemented the trust within us.

 

Finally, we decided to keep it a secret till June 1st; 

 

Because June 1st was her best friend’s birthday, 

 

She wanted to gift the secret to him on that day.

 

I felt a little bad because the secret was well-kept,

 

One day I got so angry with her, but then I wept.

 

I wanted her to trade secrets only with me.

 

I didn’t have any of her secrets, and I found it to be mean. 

 

So when she reveals my secret to her friend, 

 

I thought our friendship would soon end. 

 

But we both forgot those secrets one day, 

 

And my secret is a secret till today!