Fly on the wall

I’ve always longed to be

a fly on the wall

To hear and see

but do nothing at all

I yearn for the truths

we don’t tell other people

like old timey sleuths

hiding in personal steeples

My own story is hard

not easy to share

each person does guard

the truths we can’t bare

I yearn for the freedom

to hear from some other

the tales that precede’em

my own, did not smother.