Hidden Fear

Richard Wright

Why do we feel this adult pain

And hold these secrets that don't belong?

This loneliness has no place with us

The silence grows, it has no place with life.



You outward joy holds back the fears

Which deepen inside of us.



We travel all alone

And carry the guilt of those who disappear



Our childlike hopes,

In disarray

This pain no child should feel

We disappear.