I was tired of doing that thing I do
Where I pretend not to care
It’s exhausting
Being impenetrable
Boring
Being unknown
So I put myself on the line
Unabashedly
Unreserved
All this time I was worried it would break me
But when I was not filling the gaps with
Ambiguity and dreams
I got to see things for exactly what they are
And although it cut me
It did
It gave me sharper tools
To also cut you out