#quiet inside

I wish I was a tortoise

With a sanctuary shell

To carry like a backpack

As I venture through this spell

Because it's fun

But still I shy

And sometimes need

A place to hide

I wish I was a tortoise

My shell would be

Ever so

I couldn't make the colors match today I don't know what else to say Except I tried and they can’t say I didn't I don't like the stuff they’re feeding me They don't like the things I see But I don't think I need to be forgiven

But I am quiet inside Though they drag me by a wire Through the storm that cracks the sky I am quiet inside

I used to be so hard to find Rage and tears filled my eyes But I now I believe I see much clearer My clarity did not come easily My cell was knocked into me But now at least I know who’s in the mirror

—I speak of the disconnection of silence. Without fault, yet the beloved’s body unfastens. She slips. She gasps in the dark.