A Question

Let me ask you
a question:
do you know
what it is like
to scream in silence,
within,
for the best part
of forty 
years?

If your answer
is yes
or sometimes
or maybe,
then you will know
to a degree
what it is like
to be
me…
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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