9 Unforgettable Love Poems for Every Mood.

Secrets

When you come to me, unbidden,
Beckoning me
To long-ago rooms,
Where memories lie.
Offering me, as to a child, an attic,
Gatherings of days too few.
Baubles of stolen kisses.
Trinkets of borrowed loves.
Trunks of secret words,
I cry.

Here the great African-American memoirist and civil rights poet explores the painful tenderness of human vulnerability. In these lines, we see that romantic love is the key that opens Angelou’s storehouses of secrets and pain.