Anne

Denial is the unwillingness to admit or see the truth. But refusal to acknowledge something will not make that something magically disappear. It remains and executes its power over us behind our backs as it were, till it burns us up like a coal of fire within our soul. I think this is what you are trying to express in your poem, correct me if I'm wrong.

Sometimes when we look inside ourselves, we come to acknowledge certain things about ourselves that we would rather not know. But to face the truth about ourselves is the essential step taken
in freeing ourselves to be the person we really are.

Josh