A Secret Language

A SECRET LANGUAGE

 by Rachel Roberts

ONCE UPON A TIME

MY BROTHER AND ME

HAD A SECRET LANGUAGE

IT WAS A LANGUAGE ALL

OUR OWN

IF YOU WATCHED US

YOU WOULD THINK US

SILLY CHILDREN

BUT IF YOU WERE US

YOU WOULD SEE MAGICAL

WORLDS AROUND US

SO YOU SEE OUR LANGUAGE

WAS ONE MADE OF

ENGLISH, BUT THE WORDS

ALL TOGETHER WOULD MAKE

NO SENSE TO YOU

UNLESS YOU WERE US

SOME DAYS OUR LANGUAGE

TOLD A STORY ABOUT ME

A PRINCESS IN A FOREIGN

LAND AND HIM MY

BEST FRIEND

SOME DAYS IT WOULD BE

US SCALING MOUNTAIN TOPS, 
THE ICY WINDS TOSSING

OUR HAIR THIS WAY

AND THAT

SOMEDAYS IT WAS

JUST US TALKING

BECAUSE HIM AND ME

HAD A SECRET LANGUAGE

ALL OUR OWN

BUT ONE DAY LANGUAGE

STARTED TO WAIN

WE STARTED TO CLIMB

DIFFERENT MOUNTAINS, LEADING

US TO SEPARATE LANDS

BUT THESE WERE IMAGINARY

WE BECAME LESS FRIENDS

AND MORE FOES

BECAUSE YOU SEE

THE LANGUAGE WAS LOST

ONE DAY I HOPE

TO FIND OUR LANGUAGE

AGAIN, BUT CHILDREN

NO LONGER ONLY

BEST FRIENDS

 

LOVE YOU MY BIG

BROTHER ADAM.