where no one knows
I hide the night
the dark out of sight
the raw unspoken
and all that is broken.
I will smile and laugh
but I give you just half
of the part of me
that lives carefree
but the dead leaves
and dry heaves
and the endless battles
I lost to anxiety
it stays, too, hidden in me
because it is the beast in chains
no-one can tame
and it frightens those
who speak my name
so, I swallow it down
pretend he's not there
where the battered bits
can seem to disappear
-Les'Nspired '20
