Book Of Poems

Secrets

Me and my lynx

We walk past the bed of the forbidden space

Toddler at age

My lynx just became one

As we enter the room

And I vow to never let my parents know

First of the kind

First of the many

Decade passes swiftly

A cloudy day as

A friend and I sit outside

I see my lynx enter the parking lot

She walks by kids

No one notices

No teacher rushes to pull them away

No kid tries to pet the unknown creature

Step by step

Word by word

As my friend continues to speak in private with me

My lynx grows slightly, more hair turning white

More decades pass

Walking in the dark

A locked book close to my chest

I hear my lynx stalk behind me

The puddles being stepped in by long strides

Screeching of tires

Burning of rubber

Pain of metal on bone

See nothing but redness

Hear nothing but her breathing

Taste nothing but blood and rain

Then I'm blinded

Still clutching to the closed diary

Sometime later

Maybe the same day or week

I found myself in a room

Transforming mirrors for walls

Galaxy for the ceiling and floor

My memories

My fears

My hopes

The present day life of those I knew

All shown on the four walls

I see my dad flipping through the book

As I watch, she walks over to me

Almost as tall as the wall, she covers half the view

My dad continues reading to himself

Tears falling down his cheeks

Matching mine as I see the transformation

The great white lynx shrinks

She becomes young again

My dad finishes reading and I see him wallow in his sadness

I'm left to do the same as my lynx is now brown with a white tail

Now my parents are my galaxy neighbours

My lynx hasn't changed the slightest

I have seen people grow and feed their lynxes

Not realizing that the lynxes will stay till they're in a grave

Either to bring guilt or to remind