To the hiding clown

You are so afraid of being embarrassed,

that you instead choose to be nothing at all,

which is truly the only thing to be ashamed of, really

The lack of courage to try, the cowardly cop out towards any real discovery,

is the greatest wrong doing you can bestow upon yourself

to leave your self, unknown, out there, out of what, fear?

That the vulnerability of being seen trying will keep you from your own humanity?

That, and only that, is something worthy of the ridicule you so fully avoid

That is where the true shame lies