The Closet in your mind

When you want to share the darkest of a loved one.

Share your darkness with me.
The way it creeps in and steals the light.
Paint me a vision
Of how it reaches out
To grasp you tight.

Open the door
Of the closet in your mind.
Show me the monsters
Who’ve never been kind.

Let me see the shadows
You’ve tucked behind smiles,
The grief in your silence,
The ache that beguiles.

Name what still lingers,
What groans, low and deep,
And I will hold it with you
Until it learns to sleep.