Silenced

Silenced

After this,
talking feels impossible.

You've grabbed my vocal chords with one hand and ripped them out of my throat,
leaving me speechless.

I feel gagged.
I try to scream but my screams rattle around my empty chest;
trapped.

You've taken my voice
and my words,
with just a few of your own.

Your hands tighten around my neck,
tighter and tighter,
you squeeze the air and the words and the thoughts out of my lungs,
and you leave them,
trapped inside an empty cage.

I sit here,
struggling to breathe as the thoughts of the words you once said to me steal my words,
and leave me silenced.