“Silence is the residue of fear. Silence is the
Rwanda genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear, when there aren’t
enough body bags left.”
- Clint Smith
To say
nothing
And remain
quiet
Is a
powerful thing.
It may be
one’s sentence to death
Or one’s
sentence to jail.
Silence is
As eloquent
as any good speaker
As loud as
any scream.
Silence is
An answer
just like any other
A ‘yes’ or
a ‘no’
And all the
arguments that explain a decision.
Silence is
You in a
confrontation
Ignoring
those whose voices are muffled
By the
influential ones.
To say
nothing
Is more
than saying
too much.
Silence is
To reduce
yourself to nothing
To be
afraid to speak up your mind
And to shut
yourself from what happens around you.
Silence is
To accept
any form of slavery
To maintain
the world as it is
And to
exterminate words.
Oh
All the
things we wanted to say
but never did.
From now on
Let silence
only be
The sound
of peace at dawn.
