Family Loyalty
You call it Family Loyalty—
Close your eyes
Shut your mouth
Cover the bruises
Hide all the pain
You call it Family Loyalty—
Ignore the rapes,
the silent deaths
Pretend that they
are not insane
You call it Family Loyalty—
Keep their secrets
Bury the truth
Play the game
and don’t complain
You call it Family Loyalty—
Mother, I don’t want it.
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