“...Wake up”, I whispered to them...
“I too have a secret to share.”

I’d say they rather woke up roughly! They jumped up in that moment from their tiny bed and rubbed with force their sleepy eyes.
Even though they usually sleep heavily, contrary to me.


“Sit down”, I told them.

They sat, in any way they could.
“What secret?” they asked impatiently at once. (Lips –apart from old aged– you should always remember, are curious as well.
And bubbling as well!  And gossiping as well!  And betraying!
...And a thousand other things that there is no reason to analyze here, ’cause we will lose the essence of the matter.)

–  Should I trust you?
–  Yes, we will never betray it.

–  And yet... It is a secret that must not be kept secret!

–  Meaning what?
–  A secret that must be spread to all lips. That must reach those someday...