WHEN to WHILE

He was taught since just a tot not to get caught revealing things, to keep emotions well disguised. From early youth he was advised: The more you show, the more they know and when they do they'll use it against you. That's not good. Strong turn weak when seekers seek and find a leak
in the wall you've built to hide the guilt from which you can't escape. Don't let them rape the you who hides inside,

Don't be cruel. Don't be a fool. Just play it cool. The school of life is rife with lessons, endless sessions, urging confessions, purging obsessions. Stay confined inside your mind, do not unwind. One little slip, you're on a trip to revelation that violates the education you found of worth soon after you entered Earth from the gloomy tomb of the female womb.

Heed this advice: It will serve you well. It will save you from a life of hell one cannot foretell. Or the opposite view will serve you well.

If, in your moment of demise, you feel you've been fed a pack of lies and believe it wise to compromise, to see the world through others' eyes, there will be born another me, another you, to one day take our place in the human race faced with what to do and not to do.

So do not pull the final curtain certain you were right or wrong, plagued by shame or filled with pride. Confide with those on the other side and then decide. Some say yes, some say no. Some still don't know which way to go. And so....?????