Punishing Silence

Do we choose silence not only as a tool for self-protection when speaking our latest chapter stories feels unsafe? But also stern silence may become a weapon to ward off apathetic enemies of our straight hopelessly white monotheistic monopolistic patriarchal capitalist enemies Who would not seem to care to love us more than we ourselves can love them as part of us right now left multiculturally and ecofeminist silenced here. As you go and liberally grow silent, I may quietly then traumatically hear, as isolating time sticks ominously by, "I am not your constant un-masked friend," and, thereby, an ominous self-fulfilling prophecy emergently erupts in punishing response, "I cannot remain your therapeutic good-times, vaccinated against silent unease, healthy co-empathic musing friend," To trust when skies grow silently dark and night descends beyond despair to safely share stressed Trauma Itself first felt ray of restoring justice promise despite this loss of salvific passioned hope. Prosperity losses steal from future compassion already while first silenced weapons dream denying relentless truths of suffering lack of healthy opportunity to speak our fears out loud with those who trust our trembling tears.