Why will you follow fools?
They play
And you dance
And in the end,
You both fall down.
And then you complain.
I love that thing most
That comes just before
They speak.
Silence.
Why not skip the rhetoric?
Why not settle for Silence.
She does not impose.
She does not imply.
She does not
Call upon dead others
To justify her lies.
But do not be deceived.
If you sit with her long enough,
She will speak
With words too terrible
To utter.
And then
You will either live or die
By what comes next.
For no one
Having heard her voice
Can justify their trust
In anything less.
