SPEAK UP!
Location
My tongue is held by stitches
Cannot say how much it itches
Full of dips and mines
Bitten my tongue too many times.
Some have tongues of lead
Some of silver or gold instead
Crimson and black trenches and lines
Bitten my tongue too many times.
I would rip out my decency
To the bin with hesitancy!
But, useless as a fork with broken tines
Bitten my tongue too many times.
There is so much to say
Shouldn’t dawdle or delay
But alas, the mother of all crimes-
Bitten my tongue too many times.