What you say...
How you say it...
It's got a funny way of
Saying more than what you intended...
Body language and inflection...
Sarcasm or projection...
If you say it out loud,
Or post it on a forum,
Or press the letters into an actual book,
Spine and all,...
Hard cover...
You're saying more than you intend...
Displaying parts of your psychology
That you've gotten used to,
Or you've forgotten they exist
Because they have become
You...
Looking in mirrors can be hard...
Most people don't see what is reflected,
They see what they expect to see...
And what they often expect
Is much worse than what is...
Speaking your emotions out loud
Will get you judged,
Personally, privately, and publicly...
This is not a reason to shrink away from expressing yourself...
Just know that secret insecurities
Can be deduced...
Character flaws can be amplified...
Every comment,
Every reaction,
Is a double-agent
Cracking your safe...
Mindfulness can be difficult
When one is so exposed...
Often reveling in the attention garnered
By acts of emotional public indecency...
Wagging our feelings about
As if they were trophies,
Tributes to our weakness and fears...
Is it brave to do such things?
Or is it just compulsion?
Should you plunge the sword into that dragon's dark heart,
Pray that you were dreaming...
The nightmares have only just begun...
There's nowhere to hide
Once the words of selfness have been
Cast into the world of otherness...
Good luck...
Gird yourself with iron,
Sharpen your daggers and swords,
Drop down into the metaphor,
And endure...
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