Breath

You took my breath away

You touched my face, hands meant for tenderness

Formed for love

Why are you afraid?

Afraid that I will speak?

That I will surge sound through your forged silence?

Your false and filigreed delusion?

You took my breath away

Sealed my voice, quenched my words

Extinguished my innocence.

Why are you afraid?

Afraid of your decisions?

That I will dismantle your diaphanous tale?

Your carefully crafted narrative?

You took my breath away.

Devised a vacuum, a void bereft of sound,

Intent to control.

Why are you afraid?

Afraid of the tremors?

That will crumble your sandstone structures?

Your faltering foundations?

You took my breath away.

You touched my face, sealed my mouth

So that I would not speak,

But I am not afraid.

You will not silence me.

Though you hold me down to suffocate,

I will scream against the void,

I will raise my voice in defense of truth,

And all your deception will turn to dust,

Filter away in the wind

Until I am all that remains.

My breath, my voice: the Truth.