Speak:

Audre Lorde told me,

“Your silence will not protect you”

I have held on to those words

every time I want to speak,

but my words escape me.

Audre Lorde told me “your silence will not protect you,”

but when I try to speak,

I can’t.

There’s a pain that exists to be deeper than all I could ever manage and handle,

I feel broken,