#Poser

The Hashtag Series #5

Posers gonna pose...
I am a man who had nothing but found everything.
I'll never go back to nothing ever again.
I vowed to protect her, and that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
The pictures I stumbled upon haunt me still. The secret I shoulder is heavy.
They say secrets put distance between people,
but the truth is far more destructive than keeping it hidden will ever be.
I won't ever tell. She can't know.
When I look in the mirror, my reflection is of
who I'm afraid I'll become, not the man I am.
It makes me feel like a #poser, no better than all the others
pretending to be exactly who they aren't.
How does a man keep it together when everything
is unraveling right here in his hands?
I didn't start any of this.
I never asked for it.
But it came knocking.
When secrets and threats knock, I open the door.
Because the best way to take down a #poser is to be one.