The ability to hide

The ability to hide is _________.
The idea of needing to hide your emotions.
Hide what you are truly feeling.
To show no emotion.
To live and let live.
To make that idea stop.
To just stop.
Let it hang in midair.
To hide those words.
Those words you want to shout.
To tell the world.
But you can't.
But you don't.
Because you need to hide.
Hide what you are feeling.
Hide the information you know from an enemy.
To not let on.
Hide behind a chair barely breathing, knowing that one slip up and you could be killed.
Hide the feeling of sadness of losing a friend.
Hide.
Hide.
Hide.
Sometimes hiding becomes too much to bear.
And you can't hold it in any longer.
So you let it out.
And you become okay again.
Because you are no longer hiding.

Two Hearts

When dreaming isn't enough.
When the sound of your own beating heart isn't enough.
Isn't enough.
Isn't enough.
Isn't enough.
When you need that second heart.
Beating, right by your side.
In synch.
Never failing.
Never faulting.
You stop.
You think.
You hope.
You pray.
He'll look your way.
He'll hear your voice.
Coming from the shadows of your heart a voice appears.
In the darkness unseen.
There comes a response.
Sounding as if it too comes from the shadows of another heart.
And you find that dreaming really is enough.

typed December 23, 2010
Posted December 24, 2010
Emma Kessler