Kryptos.
She Hides In Plain Sight.
In the stillness of air she lingered,
A whisper without weight
Invisible among the breathing world
A secret folded into sky.
Chemists once caught her glow,
Orange red across the spectrum,
Beautiful beyond words they said,
Naming her hidden, the veiled. the concealed.
But secrets can sour in shadow.
Kryptos the demon cloaked in silence
Living where no eye could see
Her presence mistaken for nothing.
For ages she danced in disguise
Pretending to be noble
Pretending to be harmless
All the while feeding on the unseen.
Yet revelation pierces fog
I see her now for what she is
The hidden unmasked
The ghost made solid.
No more hiding in plain sight
No more haunting the edge of air
She is named she is known
And knowing breaks her power.
We drive her from the world
The shimmer fades the secret dies
Never again will she wound or wander
Never again will she bind the breath of man.
The hidden is hidden no longer
Kryptos is undone.
“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.”
Luke 12:2–3, KJV, The Bible
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Cathy (Christine Acheini) Ben-Ameh.
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⭐Shortlisted on The Creative Future Writers Awards 2025.
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My poetry collection Beautiful and Brutal Things is done. It's actually done and finally published over 270 pages. Over a year of my life went into this book. More than a year, really. Long days at my computer, sometimes seven days a week because I couldn't stop even when I probably should have. Then two months of editing that felt harder than the writing itself. But it's finished, and I'm still standing, and the book is real.
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The truth would always find it's way out eventually. Loved your poem so much!
Such a powerful poem with a strong underlying message. Excellent work, Cathy!