by Tyson Higel
To be utterly honest
is to radicalize your truth.
It is a reformation.
It is a reclamation.
It is for you.
But it's for others, too—
mutuality acknowledged, and known,
and in the knowing,
a new relationship may be sown.
For then,
and only then,
is the scope understood.
Clues may have come prior,
—subtle, overt—
but to be spoken of openly
is the only way it would.
On your terms,
and their agreement,
acceptance can be reached.
Through courage, and love,
the hardened ground of shame can be breached
by our effort to see
the light of life above.
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Tyson Higel is a nursing student living in Bellingham, WA. If he's not with patients or studying his coursework, he is, almost certainly, working on his poems and short stories. His poetry has recently appeared in Corridor and The Kings River Review.
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