Hiding Under Assumed Identity

My shadows slam the doors of sanity,

barricade the lucidity of soaked nightmares.

I shrink and hide myself, brittle and flimsy behind

my naked eyes that can no longer see

the obscurity of my masquerades,

hiding my true self in assumed identity.

I lurk inside a dark soul that bares nothing

but broken dreams and foundation of shrouds.

I blanket my sinister past to seek redemption

but ambiguity veils my fractured heart

held together by duct tape of animosity.

I rip the binding off, discovering paralyzing panic,

a vulnerability cloaked in bogus beards,

listening to roar of whispers and silent screams.

I burrow under my skin and wash off my camouflage,

stop suppressing walls of deceit and breathless lies

and blot out the darkness to reveal the dawning light.