Revelation

by Robert Frost

We make ourselves a place apart
      Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
      Till someone find us really out.

'Tis pity if the case require
      (Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
      The understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
      At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
      Must speak and tell us there they are.