Inhaling Shame

"The marks humans leave are too often scars."  John Green The Fault in Our Stars

He doesn't want to talk about it, he says.

 It's a consequence from a past mistake he's already apologized for, he says.

 Just shut my mouth and eat it, he implies. 

So inside my sadness and quiet reverey I sit.

Yes, I'll inhale your shame.

 I'll maintain your delusion of security.

 And I'll hide away another part of me. 

But don't mistake my sacrifice for compliance.

 For I will never hide away my fierceness.