The Clothes

All of us play the fool at times

We start to believe closing down will shield us from being hurt again

And sometimes it's true

Sometimes

We give away our great gifts

The things that make us strong can leave us exposed to the elements

So we hide from who we are

We hide

And just to avoid the pain and shame

We wrap ourselves in the clothes of the characters we think we should be

Until we start to believe

The lie

That holds us from our birthright of joy

The fiction that blinds us from the hero's we were born to be

We must open our eyes

It's time