TO BREAK THE SILENCE

The following poem is for anyone frustrated at feeling compelled to stay silent about something important.

LISTEN!

I want my say

I’ll have my say

Your muzzle of established rules and regulations

Cannot damn

The flood of my opining

I want my say

I’ll have my say

Laying bare the bones of your iniquity

And from the grave

Of truth betrayed

I’ll rise

I want my say

I’ll have my say

And fuming forth from your forgetting

I will assault

The bastion of your ignorance

I want my say

I’ll have my say

The cadence of my words to smite your defence

That in my saying

You will listen.

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By Lisa A. Hatton