Testify in Silence

He said he would ease you in at the beginning  
Ease you in to what? More pain and suffering?  
Trained with pain to remain obedient and silent  
To hold inside the screams of your crying heart  
No one needs training to fall in reciprocated love  
Conditioning is how you'll forever be controlled  
Promised Safe words will always be unspoken  
Through a plastic ball strapped inside your mouth  
Hand signals cannot be seen or sent  
With both hands tightly bound behind your bleeding back  
There is nothing safe about consensual abuse  
Just ask any surviving battered subservient wife  
Who refused to testify against her Dominating man  
How it was not her time or place to take a stand  
Now the gag-order stays tied 'til death do you part  
You've left behind the right to speak your broken mind  
No freedom can be won from imaginary shackles  
Or the chains that dangle you from the basement ceiling  
Convincing you that down is the only place to go  
You'll always be unable to say the safe word "no"  
or remember how to utter any other word  
After all the beatings he said that you deserved  
His goal is control of every thought you think  
No matter how deep the mental wounds may sink  
or how bravely you pretend enslavement doesn't hurt  
All that he will let you be is his silent pile of dirt