In that moment I faltered, I hesitated.
The mask shattered.
The walls which had long protected the sanctuary of my mind fell away.
The world saw through the image I had portrayed all those years to protect my wounded heart.
And like the bursting of a dam deep inside.
My emotions flooded out with the strength of a great sea.
And my soul cried out with a voice of a helpless child who had only ever wished to be loved.