The poem revolves around the fear of speaking the truth out loud in a polarised country.
Tag: silence
Big Brother’s Minions
'Who is the victim? Who the perpetrator of the crime? Answers to these questions are turned on their head.'
The Quiet Days
'Of nerves gently settling into the grass, of losing balance and arguments in the train'.
Mother Seems To Have Forgotten
A poem on constant vulnerability, and the fading lines between safety and brutality.
Shades of Silence
'We fight over things that people say, not over things they don’t. We pay more attention to their words, and not what their silence condoned.'
Pin Drop Silence
Putting my phone on silent has been an act of preservation instead of rebellion.
The Mirror of Our Prime
'We are silent shadows crossing our thresholds'.
Battlefield
The men, the women and the battles to be fought inside and out.