TRIGGER

A word
A look
Silence

Forgotten
in my thoughts
Imprinted
In my core

Branded
For life

Your words spoke death
Your looks stole my soul
Your silence stifled hope
I closed my heart

Never again
I promised
Then forgot

Words of death
Still live in my soul
Looks from thieves
Still steal my spirit

Silence seems right
Silence seems acceptable
Silence seems bearable
To you

But silence
Still wounds my heart
Still breaks my spirit
Still suffocates my hope

Silence is death
Silence is disapproval
I have done wrong

Fight rises
From the deep

I reach
I strain
I submit

Silence wins
I lose

Molly Messer
January 22, 2018