When you can casually bleed
While your psyche screams,
Congratulations,
No one else will ever see.
Your imprisoned esteem
Only needs to breathe
Once in a while
To keep from getting free.
At persona’s relieve
Feel free to release
In humbled bursts
What trembles underneath.
As awful it seems,
It’s only a need
Left unsatisfied
By conventional means.
Carry on incomplete
In your vital deceit
Until maybe one day
You’ll be eased.
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