PRIVATE BEACH

Walking along alone
on a morning beach ….

Unconnected,
carrying secrets
and situations,
I don’t care to share
with you or anyone
right now and this is
a further burden.

I meet you and you ask,
“So what’s new?”
And I stand there
hiding behind,
“Oh, not much.”

Inwardly, that too
makes me feel
a bit uneasy.
There are things
I just don’t talk about.
There are lonely
stretches of beach
that only I can walk.

Is that wrong?

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2010