Be silent | Don’t speak | So perpetrators grow strong
Be silent | Don’t speak | So silence strangles victims
Be silent | Don’t speak | So bystanders go unchallenged by Truth
As church walls crumbled | her heart’s resounding cry of “no” | exploded from feeble lips | into empty silence.
I refused to worshipThe golden cash cow,So they took my identity,Hoping to make me overIn their image.
I am deaf and muteFor my love language time is dead,Slaughtered by silicon and light and electrons.