Silence

Silence is a weapon and I use it to protect myself from hateful thoughts, I use it to shield my friends from the cops, I use it to untangle the world from gossip knots by putting the rumors I hear to a stop.

Silence is a weapon

Violence is a weapon, too and it's used all over the world to push each person and culture to surrender their power and resign them to service.

And it's whispered that these people who choose to exploit us should suffer and burn and be rendered to rubble for the pain they serve us. You know they deserve this!

I'm whispered this shit by people who sit silent in front of injustice and do nothing but gawk at the victim because I guess a revolution is worth it but fuck getting a ticket. What good is freedom if you don't have good credit?

Silence is a weapon

And silence is stronger than violence. You can see violence but you don't even know how your silence affects you. Silence is crueler, too. Violence can hurt someone once but silence creates a line up of future victims.

Indifference is the reason traumatized people never feel safe again. A missile can hit a target one time but silence coats that missile in depleted uranium so the survivors give birth defects to their children

Silence is a weapon

Violence can steal your dignity but silence will resign you to misery, silence will deny you recovery. Violence can shanghai you to slavery but silence put more slaves here than any point in human history.

Silence by law enforcement majority shields the handful minority who abuse the defenseless and cause half their misconduct offenses.

Silence confines you to something like solitary where you can buy into the story that you'll still save the princess as soon as you learn which castle she's in. You're only compromising for the interim.

Silence is a weapon

It strikes like an infection, it grows so slow you don't notice your toes go, you say "take my feet, I'll never drop to my knees" and after those leave you beg just to keep your pelvis, you don't deserve this! you still have a constitution, you're entitled to a sternum!

Silence is a weapon

We've drawn a line and asserted our rights but with silence that line is receding, our power's depleting and our constitution has been toilet paper for as long as the people who use it have been sitting in jail, and our silence keeps them there.

Our silence sinks more ships than loose lips when we watch them leave to never come back here. We say war is not the answer and then we fund it with our taxes.

We don't know why we're doing in the Middle East but we're over there digging up hatchets and stealing their power no matter how clear it becomes that our silence brought down the twin towers.

Silence is a hammer, it slams us in place holding together an engine designed to spread fear and corruption by dividing us and them, and thrusting us into a spiraling race to the bottom, but only if we let it happen, so instead let there be a third option.

Silence is a weapon