QUINTESSENCE
I’m afraid for you,
Apprehension concerning your very core
Terrified of time of discovery,
It’s inevitable
How can it not?
It’s impracticable concealing this counterfeit personality
Perpetually without repercussions
Eventually someone will encounter
Your true identity
Completely veiled by deception
Resolve will infringe,
Conveying the real to surface
Only then will you honestly be liberated
But until intent gains recognition,
Loneliness consumes and invents monstrosities
Impelling one and all until misplaced
Uniquely who love largely
Pending is the era
Disappointment cascades upon remnants
Of what was beautiful
SELF
You say you fear for me
Perhaps angst persist unwarranted
I rest tending private concerns
Subsequently here you invade with
Sermons of holier than thou nonsense
Frustration grips with thin constraint
How dare you!
I am who I am,
Who are you to condemn?
Fate, if there is such a thing,
Has conveyed this identity
A malicious sentence dispensed
to what was once a free spirit
Damned and shackled to conformity
Loveless as loves death to haste
Sacrificed at the alter
On too many occasions
Still I linger forsaking my former character
All in designation of morality
What you deem as a lie,
I’ve identified as indifference
Shell de Toni 