Burden of Silence

The experience of keeping pain silent

Words unspoken, life untold
too much pain for one to hold

Feels like madness, screams within
years of torment, soul worn thin

Watch the pieces fall apart
fragments of a fractured heart

Lips are closed, teeth are clenched
subjugation has been entrenched

Smile pretty, tell no tale
a rod of guilt, the mind impaled

Golden silence, rusted through
bitten tongue, face turned blue

Seething anguish, bitter taste
spirit bound, left to waste.