Evolving Emotions: Perfect

You perfect the seams that line your cloak

Each stitch integrating

Holding

Concealing

Your emotions

So well that they are invisible

Even to yourself

Inevitably

The perfection wears

Little bursts rip the work

You toiled over

Hours spent

Patching, pressing, folding, weaving

A snag

A tear

You are convulsing now

Crying a trail of irresistible emotion

Exposure from the separation

Naked feeling

Composure lost

Pouring out

Paralyzing fear persists

The judging eyes are harsher now

Lying mouth

Shameful eyes

Sore heart

Unrelenting

The great flood lays waste to your

Once perfect work