What You Can’t Say
[Verse 1 - Thoughtcrime]
I write in smoke across my skin
I burn the page before I begin
No keywords, no forbidden tags
Just thoughts wrapped tight in paper bags
I mouth the words I dare not write
I kill the mic before the night
Even silence has a shape
And mine is watched at every gate
[Chorus - The Real Prison]
They don’t need to ban speech
If they can guess your thoughts and reroute them
They don’t need to cage you
If your own fear becomes the costume
What you can’t say becomes your chain
A voice erased still leaves a stain
[Verse 2 - Dreams and Triggers]
Last night I dreamed a crowded square
Where no one blinked, and all could share
I woke up shaking, scanned for leaks
Dreams now come with trigger beeps
The desk lamp blinks a softer red
It knows the heat inside my head
I fake a laugh. I draft a prayer
I practice “nothing” everywhere
[Chorus - Inside the Algorithm]
They don’t need to strike you
If your own doubt becomes the hammer
They don’t need to silence
What your own lips have learned to stammer
The unspoken truth begins to fray
Inside the words we can’t betray
[Bridge - Spoken Layer Over Dissonant Chords]
“I learned to pause before a sentence.
I learned to flinch at certain names.
I learned that truth is not deleted,
Just shamed.”
“They told us: speech is free.
But cost is assigned by algorithm.
What you say becomes your credit score,
And what you don’t say becomes your shadow.”
[Final Verse - Turn]
So now I write on napkin skin
A single word: begin again
If they record my every breath,
Then let it spell a quiet death
To every lie they fed my trust
To every file they marked “adjust”
What I can’t say - I still can feel
And even silence learns to steal
[Outro - Whispered Refrain, Fading]
What you can’t say…
What you can’t say…
What you can’t say…
...is where you start to break the frame.
Lunapilot
Lunapilot@ditto.pub
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Just a guy wandering around, looking at things that interest me! Currently these things are Freedom, Democracy, Decentralisation, Self Sovereignty and Litecoin. (I always cheer for the underdog!)
