Guarding My Light

I take responsibility,

though your unawareness

influenced my decision to lock in my light,

I take responsibility.

I remember turning the lock

and surprising my eyes when tears blurred my vision.
'Tears? What happened? Whose tears are these? Why are they here?'

As I, too, was surprised, I looked down,

and in the looking, I understood.

I had shut in my light

when I shut you out