Not Allowed To Speak

Everyone has an opinion Everyone has a voice Then why is mine ridiculed? And thrown in the furnace face. They say they do not judge, And we should speak our thoughts Yet when I say my words They’re buried in the earth They say do not be bias And to keep an open mind But they won’t hear unless the words Are sweetened with their lies And when I speak the truth They twist and turn and churn Until the truth I’ve spoken Lays soiled in the dirt You are allowed to speak If you say what they want to hear But they will never listen To the truth, too harsh It burns