Secrets locked within my soul

feelings

I draw my feelings

with soft etched lines

hiding them behind a shaded smudge

of emotions that weren't mine

I write my pains 

into my heart

and my head

that no one knows behind the art

I dance my monsters 

to sleep each day

with unseen tears

dissolved into the fray

I sing my lies to life

give them false hope

that the swelling emotions

are easy to cope

I capture my thoughts

as I lock myself away

from everyone close

and cry myself into the grey.