Tongue Tied
Self-appointed
people’s tribunes shout
And chant
that righteous death be visited
On those
proclaimed other, who, it’s said,
Challenge
righteous certainties with doubt.
Ernest
professed defenders of free speech
Then demand
banning of hate words they see
As inimical
to democracy:
Language
isn’t allowed beyond the law’s reach.
All too
readily from good intentions
Voices may
be silenced, tongues shackled,
Stopping
difficult issues being tackled
Through a
malignant state’s intervention.
But then, advocates for better times to come
Can be
confounded, arrested; struck dumb!
D. A.
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