Another poem

I have never
given everything
to anything

I have always
reserved something
even from myself

I have ever
feared giving
something meant perchance for the divine

I have always
guarded fire
under the veil of virtue

I have never
been willing
to plumb my soul's depth

And now furiously
facades fall
before me

And now abandoned
I wonder
if I ever really can

Or rather if
ever I
might find courage to try

Or instead if
I'll embrace
my deadly silence