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Silence Kills

An Original Poem

By Dee MeinvillePublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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Silence Kills
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Silence kills.

People fight for their lives,

While others run and hide.

Silence kills.

It's concentration camps, internment, slavery, and genocide.

It's oppression of girls banned from school and denied, what is rightfully theirs.

Silence kills.

It's sitting in comfort, while your neighbor is hungering.

It's avoiding the eyes of someone in need who is lingering, just a little too close to home.

Silence kills.

It's ignoring the screams of a beaten animal or child.

It's letting the privileged run wild.

Silence kills.

It's the rise of brutal dictators, because no one thought it was important to vote.

It's corruption and lies unpunished despite the proof in what they wrote.

Silence kills.

What do eyes matter?

When you turn them blind to disaster?

Silence kills.

Pride goeth before a hard fall.

All that time you stood tall.

Well silence kills.

When will we learn, trouble for one is trouble for us all.

Regardless of how skillfully you stall.

What happens when it's your turn to fall?

Shouldn't have stayed silent after all.

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About the Creator

Dee Meinville

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."- Mr. Knightley, Austen's Emma

Struggling med student, tortured soul (what poetess isn't), devoutly Catholic. I write to express what goes unsaid and to stand for the voiceless.

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