Forever Hiding

When you hide within yourself all your life, how will you know who you are when you decide to quit hiding? When you've driven yourself so deeply into yourself you don't even know if you can find yourself, and when you think you do, how will you know it's you? Do you think you can even know?

What's been driving the hiding all these years, your whole life? Fear, hate, anger, no self-respect or self-confidence? What? What does it take to overcome the reasons and forces keeping the hiding? And is forever a lifetime, to death, to realize it was all for naught?