I will not be quiet.
There’s a little girl inside of me,
Hair the color of sunlight and eyes holding secrets of the moon
And she sits in the back of the class
And she holds the answers in her head but never upon her tongue
And it is because of her;
I will not be quiet.
There’s a little girl inside of me
In love with the euphoric sound of pen on paper
And she sings these truths in decadence
Without ever making a sound
And it is because of her;
I will not be quiet.
There’s a little girl inside of me
Not wanting to be a bother, a bore,
Muting herself for the sake of blending in
Choosing to remain on the ground because
The higher you climb,
The longer
The
Fall
And it is because of her;
I will not be quiet.
There’s a little girl inside of me
Who hungered hourly for hurt
Who carved out her heart and wrung it out dry
And didn’t tell a soul that she
Couldn’t feel it beating anymore.
She mumbled through the days
With her pulse on her sleeve
And a smile on the floor
And it is because of her;
I will not be quiet.
There’s a little girl inside of me
Who feared life enough to rob herself of it
Who clung to numbers because numbers were concrete
And nothing else was
And she let the silence fill her empty stomach
And she performed ballets to the sound of its protests
And it is because of her;
I will not be quiet.
There’s a little girl inside of me
That chose to give love a try
And all it did was stain her eyes
But she didn’t tell a soul,
No, she never called for help
And she let his words move up the hierarchy
Until they were carved into her scalp
Like his hands
Were imprinted on her cheeks
And it is because of her;
I will not be quiet.
There’s a roaring soul inside of me
And it echoes psalms of sobriety
And it puts melodies to the words
That I held in for all those years
And the little girl inside of me
Who bid her story shy
Is remembering how to be alive
Upon the platform of these palms
So no.
I will not be still.
So no.
I will not be silenced.
So no.
I will not be shaken.
So no.
I will not be shaped.
And
I
Spend
Enough
Nights
Shrouded
In
Silence,
Learning
How
To
Scream
That
Today
I will not be quiet.
