Uncovered

Walking down a dark highway

Black night around me like a tight blanket

It makes it hard to move

Hard to go forward



After I fall I see a knife

A knife that can slice the blanket

So that it will fall off me

But I'm scared that losing the blanket

Will shatter everything I know

And reveal things I don't want to



But I muster some courage

And grab the sharp object

I pierce the blanket and keep cutting

But the knife breaks partway through



Losing hope I drop the edge on the dirty ground

Laying in a pool of self-pity



I look ahead of me for a second

A second only

But it is long enough



I grab the blanket

Ripping and tearing it to shreds



It falls to the ground as shattered darkness

Like broken glass

That has a grasp on me no more



Standing tall I look up

The sun shines in a welcoming way

Saying

What took you so long?



I smile and walk forward

To leave behind the blanket that covered me for so long