shame
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Once I found...what I was looking for...
it wasn't so hard.
Once I knew... who I was...
I was so much happier.
People see me as they have...
Always,
seen me.
They think that I have never...
Faltered.
They never thought that I would falter.
They never thought that I would think...
Those Things.
No one sees It.
Even now.
What would they think of me...
if they Knew?
If they knew the deepest
recesses of my
Heart?
If they knew that I had
done the
Unspeakable?
If they knew that I had
considered the
Irreversible?
Would they shun me?
…
they would never see me the same
Again.
And so I stay silent.
Locking my
Past,
inside of
Me.