For so long, people have carried pain in silence.
They have endured hunger, loss, and broken promises without raising their voices.
They have waited, waited for change, for fairness, for dignity while those with power looked away.
This silence has not been weakness.
It has been survival.
It has been the strength to wake up every morning despite heavy burdens, to work, to care for families, and to believe that someday life would get better.
Quietly, without protest, people have bent under the weight of injustice because they wanted peace more than they wanted conflict.
But patience has limits.
Silence has a breaking point.
For years, people have watched as opportunities slip away, as leaders ignore their suffering, as the same cycle of promises and disappointment repeats itself.
They have stayed quiet, hoping that their endurance would be rewarded.
Yet the country continues as if their struggles do not exist.
Behind closed doors, in homes with empty plates, in schools without teachers, in fields where hard labor brings no reward, this silence grows heavier.
Mothers cry alone.
Fathers break their backs in vain.
Children grow up thinking that suffering is normal because they see no one speaking for them.
And yet, silence does not mean acceptance. The people who have been silent for so long hold within them an unshaken truth:
they deserve better.
They deserve peace.
They deserve justice.
They deserve to live without fear and without chains of poverty or oppression.
One day, this silence will break not with violence, but with courage.
It will rise like a wave that cannot be stopped, a collective voice saying enough.
The quiet endurance of today will become the power that transforms tomorrow.
People have been patient and silent for so long. Now, it is time for their pain to be seen, their struggles to be heard, and their humanity to be recognized.
The writer Deng Chol can be reach at dengolesmo5@gmail.com