SECRETS IN PAIRS  It seems as though  My whispers have echoes  Since everyone knows  Everything I ever said to anyone in confidence  Admittedly this is of little consequence    What does he know?  Your outrage rings hollow  In retrospect or did you mean  I'll never do the awful things they did to me   Yes unless I get the opportunity    This was before I was aware  You keep your secrets in pairs  This was before I cared  You keep your secrets in pairs    It's how you buy intimacy  You barter with your hidden horde  Of others' fragile admissions as currency   You're rolling in transmuted former loyalties    This was before I learned  You keep your secrets in pairs  This was before I'd heard  You keep my secrets in pairs    It comes and goes  The methods are borrowed  You can dispense with pleasantries  Don't worry all your confessions are safe with me  Clearly I am inured to asymmetry    Somewhere in there I learned  You keep my secrets in pairs  Somewhere in there you'd dared  To keep my secrets in pairs