The Reason to have a Secret Life

you’ve just made love and feel you’d rather have been in a dark booth where your partner was nodding, whispering yes, yes, you’re brilliant.

A Secret Life

Why you need to have one
is not much more mysterious than
why you don’t say what you think
at the birth of an ugly baby.
Or, you’ve just made love
and feel you’d rather have been
in a dark booth where your partner
was nodding, whispering yes, yes,
you’re brilliant. The secret life
begins early, is kept alive
by all that’s unpopular
in you, all that you know
a Baptist, say, or some other
accountant would object to.
It becomes what you’d most protect
if the government said you can protect
one thing, all else is ours.
When you write late at night
it’s like a small fire
in a clearing, it’s what
radiates and what can hurt
if you get too close to it.
It’s why your silence is a kind of truth.
Even when you speak to your best friend,
the one who’ll never betray you,
you always leave out one thing;
a secret life is that important.

— Stephen Dunn

 
Chloë Regen

Chloë Rain is the Founder of Explore Deeply. She has been trained in ceremonial practices and shamanic healing techniques from two living traditional medicine paths, one in North America and one in South America. She has apprenticed under two indigenous medicine people for more than a decade, is a certified Native American Healing Arts Practitioner, and has a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies from the Arctic University of Norway where she spent four years in the Arctic circle, researching the sacred landscape of Sápmi, the land of the indigenous Sámi people.

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