Poetic Referendum(s) On Life

Hide How You Feel

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Hide in your coffee cake
Hide in your overpriced car
Hide on your tropical vacation
Hide your dreams in that nearby star
Hide in your tree house
Hide under your covers
Hide when the dark arrives
Hide your heart when they turn out the light
Hide in your malls
Hide when you shop online
Hide when he slips that ring on your finger
Hide the truth from promises in a wedding vow
Hide from your boss
Hide from your mounting work
Hide when the deserved raise doesn't come
Hide the secret vocation never sought
Hide from yourself
Hide from the truth
Hide from your neighbors
Who don't know the real you
Hide yourself come Sunday
Too busy for church
Hide from your spouse
When your chores are undone.
Hide in a video game
Hide when you laugh at a meme
Hide when you use social media
Don't say what you truly mean
Hide from yesterday
Lies of your youth
Hide because you know death is coming
Deluded from truth
Hide from the world
They don't know you exist
what you're hiding from
while hopes still persist?


The idea is we're all just killing time on earth instead of enjoying the precious moments, afraid it will all be gone in an instant...when it's not really threatened. We miss things before they're gone.