Silence is golden when we speak of a breeze

Flowing peacefully, lightly with the greatest of ease

Silence is golden when we speak of trees

Stoic, majestic, free as they please

Silence is golden when we speak when we’re told

And learn to be quiet and not too bold

Silence is golden when we speak of love

Specifically ordained by God above

Silence is golden except when it’s not

When it ties one’s stomach up in a knot

And causes one’s heart to fester and rot

Because who you’ve become goes against what you’re taught

And the fundamentalist church you’re raised in

Excludes you in silence because of your ‘sin’

Silence it golden except when it’s not

And then you must fight it with all that you’ve got

For if you stay silent and dear lives are lost

Then silence that’s golden comes at too high a cost