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.