Don't Speak
Don't Speak by Rebecca Olsen
Looking around me I see disarray
And drama tea.
Don’t speak
Put on your phony mask; you make me laugh.
Don’t speak, hold your breath.
Life teaches you lessons
Don’t speak, hold your breath and deceit.
Truth is pain
Pain is believing a lie
Lying is not speaking
Don’t speak
No escape.
Going in circles
Feeling complacent
Speak the truth.
Band-Aids after Band-Aids
Is there no escape?
Speak the truth.
Spread your wings,
Open up.
Express with confidence
Speak the truth.
Life is nothing but a lie
Without painful truth
to set us free.
Speak the unspeakable.
I fly free
From your clamp of deceit.
For I have spoken the truth
That all misspeak.
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