You still breathe

When your heart is broken

You want to tell how much it hurts

And the only ears that matter

Are the ones that cannot hear.

Scream,

if only to make space 

for some silence in your heart.

For in that silence you may catch

the faint sound of your breathing.

You're still breathing...

After all these years

After all those falls

After all the countless times you've wanted 

someone to hear you

someone dear, dear

and only got deaf ears

You're still breathing.

And though you stand like

A statue from the Rock Garden

Your broken shards are still held together.

Be forgotten,

if only to let go of the fear

of not mattering.

For all the chapters you've been erased from,

You still exist

You still breathe. 

Done

I’m done anticipating

when I’ll come home

and find a note in your stead

I’m done keeping

the ears of a dog

Alert to catch sounds

of people moving out

Strangers moving in

You blow like breeze

And I settle, like snow

I think we both know

We were never meant to be

And yet we’re pretending

That I can flow

And you can stay

Because today’s not that day

We want to call out 

the elephant in the room

The wall clock is just where it was

Wardrobes neatly arranged

Why upset things?

But I’m done watching

the wall clock tick like a time bomb

And the wardrobe

that any moment now

can spill out skeletons 

If I broke this glass bottle

That’s sitting on this table between us

Broke this careful silence
And announced that it was time to leave

The ghost would be out

It won’t scare us as it does now
Hiding behind these curtains