Prismatic Observations

Few share, most from self-knowledge shrink,
fear fragility in all that matters,
form's fiction dressed as causal link
providing prism which self-image flatters -
self-fulfilling dish. Who's dished, who'd wink?
or care to think, life soon torn to tatters,

Sharing opens fresh perspective's pane,
light split then recombined sheds masks, sped pain.