Growth

and in the scope of everything when those layers of life reveal, these delicate and tender underpinnings of damage and tears unresolved and yet, so necessary we live our lives in this everyday world certain smiles learned and perfected, masking years of pain hidden beneath polite exchanges conditioned responses, fractured speech choking on its delivery bit by excruciating bit, having nothing to do with what's real what's needed inside we're dying here a slow death, as fear rises now working to obstruct our once glorious view ripping it from our grasp and dashing behind the horizon step away from the madness run from the chaos and shame, we must never give up never let go quickly now, while it's still day ...