Dark Secrets

Carry such weight

Trouble only reveals the pain

if windows are open.

Behind shuttered caverns

shadows are constant

circling our passions.

What convinces me to feel

when those I am around

have not the same perils.

Is it self-image

or

their appearance

that compels my mind

to travel inside a mire

of uncertainty

an unwillingness

incapacity

to compete with the gray area.

Funny how when we taught the

absolute

we begin to struggle to regain ground upon the

unknown

that piece of the mind

so unsettling

to call us out

only when we are alone

put a couple figures around me

and I begin to communicate

in a manner that society seemingly sought

me to negotiate

and correlate

a sort of reckoning

to associate

and help me to relate

to all those masses of personality

far more important than me.

Do you have dark secrets

oh, yes, that’s right you do

but those are the ones

you are keeping to yourself.