Hold Your Tongue

Please, hold you tongue...
It is killing us!
You speak, words of anguish
and pain.
And so we die...
Unknowingly you wound.
Unthinkingly you crush.
These syllables and letters of
violence, distort and rape
all that hear them...

Power is what you have!
Even if you know it not.
Your labels and masking of others,
mangles and saddens...

Words like...
pussy
retard
queer
slut
fat
prudish
whore
dyke
stupid
goodie
fag
bitch
loser...

Like tiny cuts,
they bleed us dry...
And in the dark and
silence we drain out and
die...

So once again I beg,
for you to
hold your tongue...
And think before you
kill those of us
who
listen...