Challenge
"Bound to chains that do not make the slightest sound..."
Bound
Bound to chains that make
Not the slightest sound.
I languish in the prison
Of my knowing mind.
These chains, they're made
Of unfulfilled promises.
Contracts of secrets and lies.
And as they say,
A contract is binding.
A promise is forever.
Bound to chains
That keep me from screaming
The painful secrets
Seared into my mind.
They're suffocatingly tight
So I never speak
Truths that I know,
That everyone knows.
I'm held down with knives
Gleaming all around me.
Bound to chains
That seal me away
From the world.
A glass wall of silence
Separating us always.
I'll never make it out,
Until the world decides
It's okay to talk about it.
Maybe then we'll all
Escape these chains of silence.
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