Lobotomised

My God

What have they done to you

Orchestrating the cut

To take out

What needed to be shrunk

Through tears

Dont they know

Our organs, tissues and vessels swell

When we don’t release the pressure

Of years and years

Of anger, grief and tears

Did you fall for the lie they told you

When your fury tried to bring attention to the truth

Did you let them stick needles in you

To calm you down

Or submit to the shock

To rewire your ‘addled’ brain?

Did they think it was so uncool

That you were reacting

From a place of authenticity

With genuine ferocity

With a lion’s roar

That wanted to tear down

A false prison

And even if now

This anger

Holds hidden deep within it

Grief

Over how powerless you were

And how unseen

Letting it out will take the lid off the sealed vessel

That holds those tears in suspension

So my darling rage and cry

You were never meant to be

A wild animal

Silenced

Domesticated

Lobotomised

With passion

Protest

Energy

Sacrificed

Stolen