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Two years- I have been silenced,
beneath your oppressive gavel that strikes
bone through my lips, clinching screams
until only scars remain witnesses of words.

I split the horse-hair thread silencing my howl,
crying out. Bruises root within veins and spreads
your cattail lash attempting to stop my stand,
but only these cuts will remember now.

I shall not be silenced-
My mouth bleeds for you