When you haven’t a voice,

You are a difficult person to Read.

You are an easy target for jokes and ridicule.

Without a voice, most assume you are not alive.

You are like a robot, who can not communicate.

Yet this only applies to a human being.

You can not communicate with a pet,

But that doesn’t make you think any less of them.

Why is that?

When a small cat nuzzles your hand,

She wants you to pet her.

When a small girl waves her hand,

She is saying hello.

It isn’t a riddle, it isn’t difficult to tell what one says without words

But what is unusual is taboo

And you must reject such things.

So she will learn to bite and scratch

Instead of love and purr.

You have put scars on this girl

And for what?