Secrets

Secrets are kept for a reason.  And these reasons are incredibly specific to the individual keeper, even if they are not aware of it themselves; the rationale is always there, lurking, growing, becoming as deadly as the secrets they protect.  Petty reasons, vain reasons, frightful reasons, and in some instances, reasons that have lost all meaning or allusion that they might have once seemed to acquire.  Sometimes people hold onto secrets for the blandest of reasons, and because of their vapidity, reasoning sometimes disappear altogether.  This, however, is a terribly frightening occurrence because without a concrete sense of logic surrounding the core reason why you decided to implode and keep locked inside yourself all the things that scare you the most, you will quickly lose sight of yourself, the self you knew before the mind and the secret fused into one body and one soul, never to be separated, betrothed together for the purpose of locking away pernicious memories and poisonous pieces of knowledge that will only ever be known in the darkest pit of your heart. 

            Yes, people keep secrets for reasons, and these secrets are not to be tampered with.   Secrets are easy to form and oh so easy to hide behind.  But what they lack in difficulty upon creating them, they make up for in kind in the difficulty required to break free from their tenacious hold.