Hidden

With simple labels, you are exorcised:

"quiet," "shy", becomes an excuse to forget,

to create excuses to veil the unease that comes with

the things that they do not understand,

the things to which they cannot relate.

Then you are alone.

Then the "quiet" and the "shy" must maintain

and uphold these roles, and into these boxes

they shrink.

Yes, they are quiet, it is the only claim they are allowed

so they become anti-social,

while they stare longingly, peering up from book to sky

from hands to eyes,

please ask me too

please ask me

please ask

who?