Underneath The Covers

• Fatima Dean, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2022

The covers
The covers are supposed to recover
But the feeling, the feelings still hover
They hover on top of her
Stopping from discovering
Discovering, herself
The feelings engulf her for the twelfth time
Enough is enough
High time she ended the mime
It's time for her to climb
Climb, the fears she kept to herself for all these years
Rolling down her cheeks tears
Tears of strength
Tears of relief she shut her ears the voices she hears
Have disappeared.