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A Woman
A woman does not collapse loudly.
She dies in pieces while
still answering politely.
Still showing up.
Still being called "too 'emotional"
for finally bleeding from
wounds nobody cared to notice.
She mastered the art
of breaking silently
because every time she screamed,
someone called her difficult
instead of devastated.
So now her silence
looks like strength to people
who never listened closely enough
to hear the funeral inside her.
