there are things that aren't mine to tell
the same can be said of you as well
even as our every cell pushes us to expel it
some secrets that I've bid people keep
were steeped in stigma, dangerous to sweep
into a corner with all my black sheep
the question comes now, 20/20 hindsight
why none of them put up a fight
as I made them complicit in hiding my plight
I was grateful then, but now I'm not sure
that keeping it secret was the best cure
but I still believe their intentions were pure
They were.
They were.