inner hypocrisy

Through the contrast of inner hypocrisy,

I have found my way forward.

I think too much and therefore,

I live my life for the day

where I truly know what it is to feel.

I touch and teach in ways

that I may never know how to accept

within the boundaries of my own skin;

and yet, it couldn’t have been any other way.

Through the ever pronounced edges

of inner experiences I have haphazardly tried to hide

beneath the floorboards of wrinkles and skin,

I have found beauty in their crooked silhouettes

With the support of warm pebbled pathways

under my ice-cold feet,

I have created a uniquely fabricated pathway

to my own freedom.

To my own excavated truth,

the way out, is in fact,

down.