Tell Me (Challenge Repost)

Tossing out words for people to read

    Often they don't make sense.

The heart can be freed

    From anger and greed

         By letting go all pretense.

Give me your tale

    The darkest detail

          The secrets you shouldn't confess.

Tell me your fails

    Your time spent in jail

           Lay bare your soul and undress.

Why do you cry

     Like the stars in the sky

When you read a poem like The Tyger?

The others seem dry

     Although people try

            To cause the reader distress.

Just let the words flow

    As the screen lets off glow

Maybe something genius will strike.

I just want to know

    How low you will go

           To write something I will like?

Don't you hold back

    Let me see all the black

The devious dark that you hide.

Are you a hack

    Or is it faith that you lack?

           Tell me, have you ever lied?

Confess all your sin

    Excite me and win

My attention for just a moment or two.

Is there evil within

    Disguised by a grin?

Give a peek at the true blue you.

I want what you hide

    To come on outside

           And play with the others like us.

Let's take a small ride

    Into the dark side

          To the place you won't even 

                   take those you trust.

(This is one I wrote about a month after I found Prose. I thought it would be a good sample for 2016)