Breaking Through

For my communications class we all had to write a slam poem. After much panic, I finally wrote it and this was the result.

Breaking Through

Forced into silence
You cannot speak
Not even a sound can escape from behind your lips.
Trapped in a world of struggle and oppression
Conform or be punished
It’s not right to be different,
In this place, you cannot be different
In this place, you cannot even talk
In this place, you have to do what they say
In this place, you cannot even think as an individual.
Every day is a struggle in this Utopian, idealistic world
A struggle to fight the oppression
A struggle to be who you want to be
A struggle between the commoner and “the man”
Or, in this case, “the woman”
But despite this struggle, one brave soul broke through the barrier
It was I that broke through.
And the sickening silence was broken with an eruption,
A thunderous voice that boomed through the oppression.
After years of silence,
Years of conforming
An individual emerged.
Erasing the oppression
Erasing the silence
A new age, a new dawn finally broke free
And I could finally be me!