There’s an ad on some Word Press posts saying,
‘Don’t Cover Up Your Dark Spots’ and I thought,
Whoa, isn’t that what we’re supposed to do?
Keep our sins and prejudices in the attic,
not flaunt them, like dirty washing ; to hide
our inner trolls. I know what the ad means. I’m not stupid.
I just got carried away by the metaphor, that’s all.
And anyway I almost put up a post yesterday
Revealing a darker, nasty side of me but my therapist
Urged me not to put it up, that there are dark spots,
She said, that are best concealed.
John Malone 
I think sometimes the problem with revealing ‘dark spots’ is that sometimes you end up feeling too exposed and vulnerable… but then, hiding them has its own problems. I really enjoyed reading this, thanks for posting.
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agreed on both counts; I guess this stuff had been building up in me so when the prompt came I slammed the poem down in sixty seconds flat! it doesn’t often happen like that 🙂
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You wrote that in 60 seconds? That is amazing. Poems that come out in a rush like that are often the most personal and raw and close to our hearts. Beautiful.
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yes. I was reading a blog with the ad attached and zoom — I was off. I’m writing a poem about that. Hopefully it won’t take as long 🙂
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I guess it depends on the dark spots… 😀
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that’s probably another poem — and a darker one
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So pensively written!
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I wish I could write more poems like that 🙂
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