To Bear Your Soul Upon A Page

Because sometimes telling people your goals or fears feels like giving them your SSN


To Bear Your Soul Upon A Page
To bear your soul upon a page
To write with ink from within the heart
To show the truth of who you are
To expose the substance of the deepest part
It is a terrifying dangerous thing
To let someone know
Your thoughts and feelings
Hopes and fears
Facts that are weapons and something more:
The ammunition given to start a war
To hand over the sharpened knife, the loaded gun, the jagged spear
It is a terrifying dangerous thing
To be known so crystal clear
It shouldn’t come as a surprise
When you’ve equipped the masses with your heart’s private thoughts
But still it’s hard to realize the possibility of your own demise
If you forget and turn your back
You may not again rise
For it is a terrifying dangerous thing
To bear your soul upon a page
To leave your soul spliced and splayed for all the world to see
To let the secrets out and let spies come in
Being vulnerable and open
Showing who you really are
Likes and dislikes
Wants and dreams
Aversions and peeves
It is a terrifying dangerous thing
To let them see what makes you smile
What eases pain, what brightens your day
In case they should want to take it away
It is a terrifying dangerous thing
To admit darkened thoughts that haunt the soul
Murky thoughts that traverse the mind
To verify faults and failures
Revealing scars
Showing the truth of who you really are
It is a terrifying dangerous thing
To bear your soul upon a page

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