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My heart rages like the ocean—

yet my tongue is stagnant water.

My eye speaks while my lip just sees.

Don’t judge me,

’cause even I want this gate flung open.


I wish I could spill

the words I swallowed,

pain heavy like a dry, hard yam.

I wish they’d burst out like dams,

sparks flying, striking them dead.


But then I remember:

I’d be a murderer

if those words ever escaped.

The guns in my thoughts

already cocked to kill.


So I guard my tongue—

and trust the Lord

to fight this war for me.


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