Never reveal your feelings, 

Your deepest wants and desires. 

Keep them hidden, buried within, 

Behind a lock, giving no one the key.

Stab them until they die, 

Because no one can be trusted with them, 

Not even the one who sparked them. 

For the second you expose yourself, 

You make yourself a target, 

And you will likely be destroyed by the very one you wanted. 

It is better to accept a fake life, 

A false love, without real commitment, 

Or to be alone. 

For then you cannot be undone by your own heart’s desire, 

Can never be torn apart by deceit or betrayal. 

It is better to never love. 

But, no, you cry, as that is not what you’ve been told. 

But I assure you, that is most people in the world. 

Though they feign it, there is nothing really there, 

Only proximity and convenience.

That is how they move on without a care, 

Or, if they rue it at all, it is only for the loss of fantasy or their control. 

No … never reveal yourself to anyone. 

You will only live to regret it.