I sit here gagged
A black tape
Around my mouth
Too much brewing
Inside
To be spoken
Heard
Witnessed
Acknowledged
No-one willing
Wanting
To hear
Just call me
A black sack
In the corner
Waiting to die
Of old age
Or eaten away
By maggots
That lay in my gut
Through neglect
Until you find
Some other torture
Equipment
To spike me
Kill me off
For sure
Yet you will never know
The truth of
My existence
Unless you let me
Speak
Utter one word
You do not have the
Ears
To hear one
Sentence from me
All is forbidden
In this dark world
Where you cage me
Like some
Wild animal
That would eat you
Alive
I am frail and weak
Kept inside
These dark
Dungeon walls
So that no-one
Would be too ashamed
To see
This bedraggled wreck
This person
Who does not even
Eat
Or wash
Herself
Without being
Looked over
By other human beings
Who do not see her as a
Human being
Just wild beast
To be captured
Tamed
Do they not see
Through her dark eyes
The truth of her
My soul?
Do they not see
Her mind, her brain
Her spirit?
They are blind to it
All
Not willing to see
Or speak
On her behalf
They gag her
Like a wild
Beast
One to be captured
And kept
Under bars
For the rest of
Her
Forbidden
Life