I hide pieces of myself away
pretending it's only for a little while
looking away when pain blossoms in my heart.
Tears drip in silence, shards of hidden shame.
I disguise the true me, beneath "randomness,"
I act out, silly, all fun and games,
but when I look in the mirror my reflection turns away-- ashamed.
This is what I have become,
raindrops of misplaced truth lost in the arid desert.
Stormy seas where Greek monsters roam swallowed me whole.
I open up only to shut back down, a lost prospect at every turn.