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11/12/18
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She feels nothing,

Staring with glassy doll eyes

At them.

Them with their questions.

Questions

Endless interrogation.

She doesn't answer

She doesn't flinch.

Because...

Why would she?

Why should she speak

If they'd never

Believe her anyway?

She is not the boy who cried wolf.

But she is

Not an angel

Who they'd willingly praise.

Just tell us the truth, they'd repeat.

An endless loop that will not stop.

And they know this.

So she sighs.

Tearing apart her sealed lips,

That had been sewn with invisible thread

Pierced with needles stained with resignation.

She opens her cracked mouth,

Eyes blank, unrelenting

With her cold gaze.

Ready to tell the truth,

Her truth

Which they will call the lies she'd made.

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