these words
once so tightly knit together
will randomly start to fall
not to get it off my chest
but instead to draw

a black tear
on white face
will not do...

sewing your lips shut
to get the best of you
she'll try to take the beauty from the verse
call it hers
change your prose to lack worth

and  honestly im too caught up
fighting the words to be bothered
especially with your...

MASQUERADE

said the mime with a wink
"I always preferred charades"
as Houdini taught him
how to unshackle
but she could never teach him how
to breathe out of his mouth

and so he drowned
and she called it silencing poetry
her greatest escape yet