I appreciate that governments across the world
and across the ages like to have the choice
of some of their deeds in defence of democracy
being secret to protect their citizenry
from what their government might do to them.
What I will never understand is why the people
who act in secret are rarely given the sort of cover
for what they have to do, where nothing seems amiss
there is no evidence of a double or triple lives
or of forced divisions in how the individual chose to live
for their descendants to discover, and to feel perturbed about.
What hurts after is less the rumours that were hidden
and more the way they were stored, only to be revealed
long after only the slightest suspicions were fed.
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