I didn't want to say it

The truth poured out

Like a flame lighting a gas spill

Small, sudden

Very dangerous

Impulse has a way

Of getting through wall

I put my voice around 

It went right through

Rehearsing my lines

My soft edges

My careful silence

In that moment 

i told them everything

I'd been pretending

Not to feel

It wasn't graceful

Wasn't strategic

Not even wise

But instead it was real

Raw, unfiltered

The honesty

That comes

When a heart outruns

The mind

At time the truth

Needs to be unleashed

In order to escape

– E. J.