When your words make her put her wrist to the razor
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When you words make people spit and stare at her
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make a mother shed endless tears
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make them feel they don’t belong here
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words inflict pain and distress on beautiful faces
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words mean we need the safest of spaces
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make others stigmatise and shun
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words incite thoughts of killing and guns
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make a young man die alone by a tree
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make a father grieve ’til he’s empty
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make their day as dark as the night
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make suicide a national plight
I don’t defend your fight to say it!
When your words are divisive so hateful they kill
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make someone’s best friend overdose on pills
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make no one sit near him on the bus
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make it all about them and us
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words make another feel less than whole
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your words eat away slowly at a beautiful soul
I don’t defend your right to say it!
When your excuse for this harm is speech and freedom
To self-absolve from the hurt that you have caused
I say your words are sick and I condemn them
To honour the beautiful lives forever paused.
Originally Published on Polyfeministix
