Your tongue is black and blue
You did this to yourself
Just to keep silent
To keep your lies choked down
You've been biting on your lips so much
That you can see the scars from cutting them open
Just to keep quiet
TO keep your insults in your throat
You pull out your own teeth
Shatter them with hammers
Just to stay mute
To keep the truth from spilling out
Because every word out of your mouth is poison
The venom comes off your tongue and fangs
And out your lips to anyone who listens
So, you refuse to speak
Do anything to silence yourself
Just to save them
To keep those traitors safe
YOU ARE READING
Amateur poetry from an amateur poet
PoetryNothing more than my word vomit poetry. I'm not that great a poet (as shown by my previous abandoned poetry book) but I just have these poems sitting and collecting dust, so yeah, might as well. Most if not all poems carry a trigger warning (discuss...