Air Quotes, also known as sarcasm, Spoken from the Other Point of View
They command us to be silent
Until they take our silence as consent
“You may speak!” they shout
With their hands over our mouths
“Just stop being so divisive
Your words are too harsh
Too inconvenient
Too plain to be true
Not quite what we wanted to hear”
“And your pain is manufactured
And inappropriate
And uncorroborated”
“And your bodies are not your own
And your memories belong to the collective
They exist:
For (our) comment
For (our) judgement
For (our) verification
For (our) pleasure”
“Our tears are heavier than yours
Yet (and because) they are few in number
Our logic is sounder than yours
Because (and yet) it belongs to the few”
“The gates through which we walk
Are made from the bars of the cells
in which we keep you
We paint them gold in celebration
And in order to forget”
AVISHEK GHOSH
Fri 12th Oct 2018 12:47
Wonderful