You're dead but you breathe as though you're alive
You're alive but you act as though you're dead
A rapid heartbeat silenced by a shock of silence
Silence invades your mind
Causing temporary peace
Until your thoughts go to war
They fight for a chance to be heard
But they know that no one will listen
As the realization sets in
The silence becomes deafening
Suffocating
Even life threatening
Everybody wants to be heard
But nobody wants to listen.

*-c.a.