i sigh and it sounds empty
like when you jump but there is no fall
when you scream at the top of your lungs but no sound comes out
i sigh and it sounds as hollow as my chest
the biggest cave lays here
it goes on for miles
out of the deepest of my soul
into this world
i sigh and it almost sounds as silent as the moment you decided to never wake up again
as silent as the second after you sighed your last sigh and the clock stopped ticking
as silent as we were because we were all holding our breaths,
hoping we could hear you shifting your eyelashes and lifting your eyelids
as silent as the moment when i knew she had gone but i still waited for months right next to a phone that never rung again.
i sigh and then it hits me
i sigh and i can hear decades, centuries,
milleniums of pain
i sigh and i hear the sigh of a thousand others that were here before me
lived through this
sold their soul to this feeling before me
i sigh for them
i sigh for what's lost
and for what's yet to come
i sigh,
i sigh a sigh so deeply it could be our anthem
as if i'm lifting an empty glass saying
cheers;
we are empty but we are still here
we might have lost some but we will never be defeaten.