To Just Let Secrets Live Their Lives The Way They Like To. Poem by RIC BASTASA

there are so many things
which remain as secrets

they are more beautiful
that way, in fact, more peaceful

in their closed containers, despite
its airless and airtight existence

for we are better looking when
blind or blinded or blindfolded

for we feel much better without
them, i assure you, they do a lot

of harm when you set them free,
from butterflies there, they turn

to bats, and vampires when you
unlock them, and if you remember

Pandora, then, i must warn you,
you better keep the silence, the

capacity to just let secrets live
their lives the way they like to.