When your strength is your tongue
and it betrays you
what have you?
When your lips are what make you
who are you without them?

Now that you have become the voiceless
what has become of you?
Who are your people?
Who will speak for you
since you no longer can?

What is left?
What will be?
What do you have to say for yourself?
Gods, is there any way
you can see fit to resolve these issues?
Why won’t you respond?