Silence
SILENCE
When you sit back in silence, and think, it won’t be me.
That’s what you’ll remember, when you’re no longer free.
Moments, they have come and gone, when you’ve just turned away.
Your truth died in that silence, now you’re the castaway.
When you wait to raise your battle, when it’s all but come to pass.
They’ll target you relentlessly, they’ll kick you in the ass.
Your words they’ll say are poisoned, they’ll say they don’t ring true.
That’s when you’ll see the rest of them, they’ll turn their backs on you.
You’ll recall your own past silence, you’ll think this cannot be.
I remember it like yesterday, Dave said these words to me.
“Go ahead, be careful, they’re known to eat their own.”
It took me all of fifteen years, but now the meanings known.
Performance doesn’t matter, if someone’s marked your back
It doesn’t matter what path you choose, you’ll never be on track.
They’ll look for any angle, they’ll always find a way
The fuel they need is silence, to make the rest obey.
So when I’m gone be careful, as nothing will have changed.
The truth cannot be hidden, but they’ll fight to keep it caged.
Out of sight and out of mind, to them it’s all the same.
Until that day the truth ignites, and voices fan the flame.
Truth it has a memory, past lies will be undone.
It will spread like raging forest fires, impossible to outrun.
In silence now I crept along, I found that cage’s key.
Let’s put it now into that lock, it’s time to set it free.
Copyright © Jeremy Snyder | Year Posted 2020
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