“Bottle it Up”

January 26, 2013

Who do we choose to be?

How do we choose to see?

The people around us,

The masks covering

The true faces we hide

From judgmental eyes

But in a life so short,

Can we really afford

To lie to the world?

To lie to ourselves?

But we don’t want to lose

What we think we hold most dear

Clinging blindly to things

We have already lost.

So we bottle it up,

Feign adoration,

Feign disgust.

All the while,

We die in our loneliness,

A little bit more.

Never knowing if our truth

Would be accepted

Or discarded, along with us

In this world,

Killing us softly

In its embrace.