A Poem For Every Voice That Couldn't Speak

Amada Paul Israel
@israelamadapaul172464
11 months ago

𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥



She walks the halls with quiet grace,
A dream in her heart, a smile on her face.
Victoria young, brilliant, and bold,
With a future ahead too bright to be sold.

She chose to learn, to build, to rise,
With fire of hope behind her eyes.
In classrooms where knowledge was meant to be found,
She never thought silence would be the loudest sound.

A lecturer called her, late one day,
With words that twisted, in a crooked way.
“Come to my house,” he said with a grin,
But she saw the shadow that lurked within.

She said no.
Not once. Not twice.
She said it with tears, she said it with ice.
She said it for girls who had no choice,
She said it with trembling but steady voice.

Then came the threat, sharp and cold
“If you fail to come, your result I’ll hold.”
Still, she resisted, refused the deal,
Chose her dignity over what she could feel.

The results came back like a stormy flood,
Her paper was stained with the lecturer’s grudge.
A carryover, written in shameful ink,
Not for failing, but for daring to think.

To think she could be safe in class,
To think that justice would come to pass.
But now she’s trapped in what-ifs and doubt,
Afraid to scream, afraid to shout.

What if they blame her?
Say she was bold?
Say she seduced, just to get hold
Of grades she earned with honest hands,
Now buried deep in shifting sands?

What if the ones she trusts the most
Turn their backs, become a ghost?
What if religion clouds their view?
What if they say, “This can’t be true”?

So she keeps silent, walks alone,
Wears her sorrow like a broken tone.
Not for weakness, but for fear
That the system won’t hear.

But Victoria’s silence speaks aloud,
It echoes fierce, it shakes the crowd.
It asks the world, How long, how far?
Will justice bow to a name or star?



𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚 (𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧)

So rise, O voices, break the chain,
Let truth and healing end the pain.
No more silence. No more shame.
Let campuses be safe again.

This is for Victoria.
This is for all of us.
This is for truth.
Let it be heard.



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