" Within these walls,
That keep us in;
We muffle calls,
We don’t begin.

Here dancing is fighting,
And serpents speak truth,
Forever denying,
A voice of youth.

And so, we’re trapped in silence,
Never to kick free from the viscous prison,
Awaiting the talons of the next tyrant,
Never to recall heroes once risen.
Never to speak,
Never to see. "

― Marcel M. du Plessis , The Silent Symphony