Verbal abuse
“If a voice could slap you, and put you in your place,
as if you were merely a creature of no worth,
it would look you in the eye and tell you, ‘You belong in the dust with the insects crushed beneath footwear.’
No one holds them a funeral, because no one knows they existed or had been crushed.
And when they are noticed, they say, ‘Oh, poor insect.’
But they hold no value.
So their corpse is not even brushed away like dust.
The murderer moves on, guilty with no charge.
There are no charges in the constitution for unaliving a being of no worth.
If today the voice dissects your respect into pieces,
make sure you utter no word.
How could their knife inflict pain upon something that does not exist?
How could the creature be in pain?
How could it feel anything,
when it can only be alive or dead?
The pain that cripples your chest, tell it that it does not exist.
Tell it that nothing has ever happened to you.
And if it did, move on.
No one likes crying children.
Besides, children know no pain.
It is funny that you feel as though your heart could burst out,
when you have seen nothing of the world.
You do not know its cruelty,
or its pain.”