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Apr 2018
There is a world renowned secret that no-one told you about
It’s a notion never muttered under forty that it holds such clout
But its being has held for over a thousand years
Don’t let this secret ******* you with fear

Its patriotism to the highest ever order
That death was no mistake, a secret held by those who will find you
Don’t even write a line of similar proportions
Its life or death, you don’t live with one caution

Scratch your head and wonder what I talk of
Should this be written if death near threatens its author
Well I’m not yet of that age of secret discretion
I just heard off of a man who may now need God’s blessing

For he spoke of that sentence which should never have been uttered
Which now lives in my mind and is all of a clutter
For I should never have heard

The secret

JJB
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
John Bartholomew
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John Bartholomew  45/M/Cambridge
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