Silence is Acceptance

Fear grabbed me by the throat  
Took my breath away to erase zealous defiance  
Enslaving me within my own jaded duplicity  
Wedged between over-confidence and arrogance  
As if either one could comfort the rationale of silence  
Emerging when immersed in the tears of falling angels  
Whose wings were singed by the feverish chill emanating  
From the souls behind the eyes concealing undead lies  
Uttered only in the minds cynics with throats cut side to side
I cannot fathom critique from partisans who've said nothing  
For untold ages while the battle continually rages  
Feigning two-faced offense for conserving slavery  
Embracing supremacist icons of murderers and traitors  
Mowing down the peaceful protestors who will not be silenced  
For in death our voices speak louder than spirits in the heavens  
While tears of Summer cannot stop Heather from blowin' in the wind  
Too many voices remained silent until called out for being quiet  
For the volumes unspoken by the tongues that were broken  
Say nothing about the poets who refuse to spill defiant ink