suppressing something personal
so deeply important to you
devastating to have exposed
humiliation of being unmasked
mortification of your own reality
hiding in plain sight
rapidly concealing feelings
emotions contemptuously rejected
choices devastating consequences
denial existing always
terror of judgements constantly
unable to release truths
accepting secrets as certainty
guilt of association
embarrassment connected to disgrace
is it who you are?
or what you are?
does it have to matter?
it does
or does it?
you either own shame
or it owns you
decide
tony scarpa 9/17/2018
