Kaleidoscope Poem by Yvonne ColemanBurney

I feel naked on a stage
vulnerable to your stares
as I expose my self to you
showing my inner self
as my heart and soul are on display
trying to be the real me
without the games, people play
with the pretense that I will stay.

As I strip away the layers of myself
I feel your eyes roaming
here and there like a
kaleidoscope shifting
to each color that I am.

As you begin to look
you will see the blue colors
in my life were pain had resided,
the greens that gave me the peace
such as a rainbow after a pouring of rain,
the reds that were the fire that burned within,
or the blacks that occurred when
I felt I was in a hole and did not
want to ever come out again.

You see the labyrinth from
paths difficult to follow, as you
look closely my eyes will reveal
the secret screams
causing me to holler
as my pride became
a double dose of my own shame
I had to swallow.

As I stand here naked and proud,
I am glad I exposed all of me,
because your face tells me, that
now the look of blame that was
previously on your face, has now
taken its own shame!

There surely aren't any skeletons
in my closet and I am free to be me,
with the peace of knowing
I have not participated in the
silly games people play.

The question is now what role will you play?

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