Breaking Silence

This refuge of the mind

This once safe place

This haven, now pushed to forefront

Prison doors slammed shut un-wanting

Sealed among those seeking recluse

Unavailable, loud, pressing, urgent

No longer a home

Panic, opened cages

Unshackled, those held in bondage

Unsafe, those in retreat

A vestige of oppression

Hoping to destroy

And never again

They, which scream at the sky

Hands raised, head high

No longer familiar

Uncertain and insane

Purpose hopeful for the hopeless vain

Broken, bent, un-mended, spent

Shouted, searched, sought, heard

Those who will fix it

Tinker secret sidelines

Away from masses

Searchlights sighting frightened boys

Slighted ladies posing sides of isles

Safe-less, loud, pressing, pressed, distressed

Printed, posted, found and founded

Shouting secretive sentence

Burst from our heads to the ground

From this, the broken silence sounds

From this, new verses wound

Spinning new constructs

Winding new clocks

Writing new equations

Proving solutions known, endless

Glass ceilings etched

Carving over and over

The same tale of certainty

Behind the crystal story

Lies in foreground, truth trailing behind

Time, time, time, time

Setting new expectations

Lining new victory laps

We are so tired

Souls never seem to wear out

Lines will flip

The second voice will ring first

Ears shocked, granted attention

The volume will not rescind

Silence broken will begin

- CHH, 2018