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Silence

In here we suffer
In silence.
Seething undertows,
Individuals

Flung together.

Movements of the eyelid
Seen as provocation.
You learn quickly
to side-step, to avoid
conflict.

At all costs-
to survive.

Downstairs in ward 36
you learn,
It took six staff,
seven policemen with batons,
(and four injections)
to submit the angry young man

Into a dreamless sleep.
Outcast to the street,
He swallowed 12 razor blades
just in order to
get back in.

We don't want to be here
Neither do we want to be
Out there.

In here
We suffer
In silence.

By Tony Fisher