There is an assumption on my part that expression is better than suppression
There is a time and place for disclosure and here in our poetry we find a gentle way
To say things that might have been hard to say any other way.
For some reason speaking this out in verse
And making art of our thoughts
Has created a safe space
There is no invasion,
No sledgehammer of opinion
Just honest expression
Through thought out truth-telling, without
Againstness we befriend our suppression
We invite it to consider the possibility of expression.