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The Violence of Silence

The Violence of Silence

To be alone
Has never been
A threat
To human life,

But there
Is something
Further on,
A lonely sort of knife.

It cuts the threads
That tethers us
To all that's
Safe and warm,

The violence
Of that silence when
Dark function
Takes its form.
Written by runningturtle87
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Brutal truth and make up sex and preoccupation and skittles....
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