Do you know the difference?
because it’s blaring bright
and no one seems to know,
until the damage is imprinted
to deep to simply cut loose.
I am guilty of hurting people
I feel no shame that I had an illness
that amplified my negativity.
guilt is about the things we did,
shame is about who we are,
those things that we cannot remove from our bodies
without killing our “self.”
Shame of is
the desire to remove
the heart of humanness in each of us,
that only we could locate for ourselves