But Nobody Knows...

PAD Challenge day 29: For today’s prompt, write a what nobody knows poem. It’s easy to write a poem about what everybody already knows, though it may be difficult to write an interesting poem about such things. Still, use today’s prompt to explore things people may not know–secret stories, locations, and so on.

Nobody knows

though, I suppose they suppose

what perhaps ebbs and flows

in thought's half-closed cell

because our finger-tips 

can drop hints and lips

are a door through which slips

what word-shadows will tell

...but nobody knows

as past casts highs and lows

in love-loss-longing throes

to those walled worlds within

which what-when-where-why

may soft-silver our sigh

with the ruins that lie

beneath our skin

Janet~