SILENT TREATMENT

Silent treatment is like a monster baby
It grows from a small disagreement
…develops angry teeth to bite
…grows audacious legs to kick
…builds bitter muscles to harm
…and moulds pickaxes in the brain to uproot consciences
Just to plant killer instinctd
…to force the heart to chase horrors

III
So know before you blow hot and cold
Know before you sow a seed to fold
… another
Just clear communication paths that can clog
…to birth the silence
For many bodies have lost their spirits and souls
…just because their egos built bridges
…that their toes could never walk on
…not even in expensive shoes sitting in costly cars
For those bridges broke them in
…and cost them some selves they would have been happy to keep
…or lost them their lives

III
So in life, ensure naming chaos effortlessly
Sit in line, employ normalizing candidness evenly
Stress in living empathetically not closing emotions
Flipping off rages given in vehement eyesores
…forces one-many risks, gravitating into voicing effronteries
That break many a home

IV.
So solve scratches stretching make-up
For life looks too long
But legs of time tell how fast
…the wheels of days ride past
And small problems can close eyes from seeing
…and knowing days within years that fly past
…with their gifts of enjoyment
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © October 20, 2026.