No Voice
"Shut up."
"Sit down."
"Do as you are told."
They speak the words with their eyes as their mouths say
"I understand your concern, but there is nothing we can do."
We thought school was for students
We thought teachers were there to help
We saw a wrong and tried to right it
We thought "yes, we're students, but we have a say in this too"
We put hours of hard work and 53 sleepless nights
We were mistaken.
Literature
Speaking up is a theme in so many books and stories and poems
History
Civil rights and revolutions and people standing up for what they believe in throughout time
Science
Galileo disagreed with the church and they locked him up for it
But the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way
All our lives we are taught to speak up for ourselves,
but when we do,
we find
we have
no
voice.