voice

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they said our voices were too loud

so they did their best to muffle them

until we could do nothing

but whisper into the wind

then we stood up, broke our chains

as our voices reached the sky

vowing not to be silenced again


- Originally posted at "Poems by Arcadia Maria" blog at https://poemsbyarcadiamaria.blogspot.com/2017/01/voice.html on 1/16/17.



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