What Are You Scared Of?

That she knows you lied about your name
or that the age you gave her is times
two the exact?
Are you afraid that she knows
that the ring on your finger is
not an ornament,
but a sign of an oath officiated?
That the floral bedsheets on your bed
are not your mother's 26th birthday present
but your wife's preference?
Are you worried that she's aware
that the photograph of a woman hanging on your
table room wall, looking gorgeous and happy
is not your elder sister abroad?
but the woman with whose husband she shares bed?
Are you thinking she knows your dirty secrets
but she does not care?
and
you are scared that she's playing with
your feelings, like you are doing with hers?
Or that she has fallen for you and
you wanted nothing serious?
are you scared of hurting her feelings,
if you let the truth known?
Open the closet mister.
Let her see what's inside
Hurt those feelings now
or wait till later and
That family you love so much
That name you value so deeply
And the respect and status you so well command
will vanish in the winds.
You'll have nothing
For wanting everything.