Raw

Sometimes,
at our most vulnerable,
we are taught great lessons.
We are stripped bare
of all the facades and falsehoods
and forced to walk
in all our shame
with all our flaws
and every nuance of who we are
blatently exposed.
And we learn.
That that person
is ok.
That those facades
are unnecessary and unwarranted.
That we are simplistic creatures
endowed with incredible features
that we should neither hide nor mask.
We learn - to be our true self.

And that 'self'
is absolutely stunning.