<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583300" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>While Silence Is Her Refuge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He crushed her being, <br>spat on her education, <br>raked her self-confidence<br>burned her plans<br>charted in the kitchen<br>where her work was never done.<br>Violence upon violence<br>visited her scar-ridden body<br>The pain so severe<br>she could not even scream.<br>Silence was her refuge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her wounds ran much deeper<br>than sisters could imagine<br>But she swam alone in the<br>sea of her nightmares and anguish<br>fears covered, cries stifled<br>Silence was her refuge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crowd had a million ears<br>but not one for the moans<br>of a sister’s tortured soul<br>It taunted her for her questions<br>crucified her for her speech<br>Word of pain was infamy<br>The crowd rubbed salt on the<br>raw, bleeding wound<br>Since then, silence became her refuge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A daughter now does the work<br>that is never done<br>Her spirit protests not<br>numbed by her mother’s death<br>and her own, for like her mother<br>she died a hundred deaths<br>and will die a hundred more<br>because silence is her refuge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crowd does not know<br>that silence betrays<br>The crowd itself has run<br>a million times<br>to silence for refuge<br>It still does.<br>When will the crowd realize<br>that silence is a foe? <br>It harbors violence<br>and squeezes the blood<br>that waters and keeps alive<br>the tree of death<br>that has eternal life<br>while silence is woman’s refuge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">13 March 2000</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cheryl+L.+DaytecYa%C3%B1got">Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583300" data-title="While Silence Is Her Refuge de Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot" data-description="He crushed her being, spat on her education, raked her self-confidence burned her plans charted in the kitchen where her work was never done. Violence upon violence visited her scar-ridden body The pain so severe she could not even scream. Silen..."></div> </div> </div>

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