7/30 - The Truth About Secrets

[skonen_blades]

When every human speaks there’s a variety of quiet:
The silence of the one who pulls the strings when there’s a riot.
The quiet of the perpetrator perpetrating theft
The stillness of the smile on the face of the bereft
The secret-keeping victims of the sexual abusers
The overcompensating winners thinking that they’re losers
The woman planning suicide who smiles to her friends.
The man who never protests but who bends and bends and bends.
Communities that cover up a crime to make it seem
Like everything is beautiful and everything’s a dream
Everyday hypocrisy and lies and scams and cons
Happening with cavemen from the stone age to the bronze
All the way to present day and centuries to come
The silences we all keep secret make our voices dumb

A cornucopia of quiet shouting us to sleep
Silences as massive as the ocean depths are deep
Secrets and denial mountains choke the very air
But ‘cause we cannot hear it we can say that it’s not there
All the voices crying out that never say a word
Deafen me and deafen you because they’re never heard.

I don’t care how smart you are. Stupid or collegiate.
My favourite human beings simply cannot keep a secret.
Language lets us hide things but it’s us who has the choice.
The truth can set us free but first we have to use our voice.



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