Silenced

I creep up behind myself
Forgetting I can stand
And I yell so loudly
That my voice just disappears

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Smacked head on the counter top
As I trip over my shoes
My tongue is

Somehow

suddenly
Too large now for my mouth,
And the words I know, stumble about-

And
Can’t quite

find their own way out

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Bloody lipped
Chapped
And sore
I'm embarrassed
I couldn't take on more

I wipe the stains off of the floor
And I look up at the ceiling
I'm pretending somehow
Some what
That this argument
Knows reason

I choke back air
And teach myself
The very easy act of breathing
And count down to ten
To steady against
This bodies act of treason

Ground
Floor
I am here
As I've been before