Unseen Truth

A chance to speak those words burning in my throat,

A chance to let you know every deep secret hidden behind the walls we’ve built,

Strong and sturdy so no one can see how fractured our lives have become.

We are safe behind these brick walls.

The sentences we try to form,

Never make it past our lips.

They get caught up in our imagination,

As we watch the possibilities of what could be.

Staring at the truth of what might happen if we let our thoughts slip through our sealed lips.

They would find out every detail,

Every lie we’ve told to avoid confrontation,

Every smile we’ve plastered just to make it through the day,

Every thought of giving up that has ever passed by our never ceasing minds.

They would know us, for who we truly are,

Not the identity we’ve created to make life simpler,

The one that believes every lie,

The one that never has to fake a smile,

The one who would never give up on the grasp she has on hope.

But that wall and that identity will all fall away someday,

We will accidentally let our thoughts move past our mind,

And we will be left to deal with the chaos we have made,

A hurricane that will wash away all the safety we hold on to.

Until then, we will be lost behind our walls,

Keeping our hands over our mouths to keep you from seeing the secrets of our dysfunctional world.