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What The Silence Tastes like
She lived in a kitchen that always stayed clean,
But the knives in the drawers had a glimmering sheen.
No one cooked meals, they just picked at their pain,
And swallowed their guilt like warm cherry stain.
Her mother set plates with a delicate grace,
While chewing on secrets with a porcelain face.
Her father carved silence like slices of roast,
And served up control with a gloved, empty toast.
She learned how to sit with her napkin so tight,
How to chew down her rage and swallow her fright.
"Good girls don't gag when the taste turns to rust,"
So she seasoned her shame with obedience and dust.
Each night she cut into slabs of her soul,
With silverware hands and a dinner bell toll.
She bit into life and pretended it fed,
Though every last bite filled her mouth up with red.
She tasted the years they told her to shrink,
How pretty she looked when she barely could think.
How love was a meal that never felt warm,
Just raw meat on bone—just habit and form.
One night she sat with a fork in her hand,
Staring at meat she could barely stand.
But she cut it anyway—flesh to the grain,
And out came not juice, but memory and pain.
The blood on the plate didn’t come from the steak,
It poured from the nights she was told not to break.
It spilled from the “no”s she never could say,
From the hunger for love that just rotted away.
She chewed on a scream and swallowed it whole,
Her teeth breaking down every piece of her soul.
And when she finally choked, it wasn’t the food—
It was the grief marbled deep in her mood.
You see, we don’t cry just when life hits the bone—
We cry when we bite into what we’ve outgrown.
And when the blood comes, it’s not from the plate—
It’s years of raw silence we’ve tried to sedate.
So if you see someone chewing and start to see red,
Don’t ask about dinner—ask what’s been left unsaid.
They’re not just crying for what’s in their mouth—
They’re bleeding from meals they were forced to choke down.