silence

for the slightly insecure

you are silent.

you are silent because
the walls can talk.
your mother used to tell you that
if walls could ever talk,
the world would be a place of truth . . .
but today the walls
had looked you and said,
"ugly."
the day before that they said your
v-neck hung too low;
its exact words being,
"no one wants to see that."
the only downfall is that you believe it;
you believe every word of it.
because you know
that these walls only speak
words of truth.
after all, that's what your
mother told you.

so you stay silent.