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Confined to silence

Conscience is pleading

Shun emotion

Expression is extinguished

Beauty is filth

Affection is obscene

Dreams lay dormant

As duty crushes me

Dying

Slowly wither

Faith conceals

The hopeless distance

Enslaved to denial

Tortured by shame

Sickening emotions

Infinite frustration

Inside

Deny

Impoverished

Snared to a lie

Feign content and comply