I am silence.
Regardless of the medical treatments and diagnoses that have classified and chained me.
Is it possible to have absolutely nothing wrong with you, yet you've been assigned a title all your life?
Mute. "refraining from speech or temporarily speechless".
Verb. "deaden, muffle, or soften the sound of."
Is it possible to be the opposite of something?
Merely an antonym of the simpler things in life?
Do I want to speak?
Well, that's solely a question you should ask yourself.
Do you want to speak?
Are you at a loss for words?
Or do you simply prefer observing?
YOU ARE READING
As Silent as A Second Language
PoetryPoems are often disregarded as a romanticized way of looking at conflict. Here we meet a young girl, who has been mute since she was three. No friends, no life at all. The only way she survives is through her poems. Little do her doctors and countle...
