Seeds Of Silence

'Listen' they pleaded

'silence' they commanded.

silence is the language women learn

when they are born

the voices lie buried deep within
humming eerily, their wings shorn

they build houses

on the foundation of silence

and swallow the magnificent universe

they created with their agile tongues.

when they begin to blossom - the stunted seeds
of their suppressed voices

the world erupts in a white rage

as their silence charts a new, untrodden course.

The voices refuse to be cowed down
they have long been in forced hibernation
they must conquer the fear, the enemy within
for posterity, they must build a new secure foundation.

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