• How to breathe? I have forgotten

    I pretend, go through the motions of breathing

    It eats away at me, this mimicking

    It reminds me of what I cannot really do, or be

    I don't remember another emotion

    Except what i feel now

    Pain. Pure and simple.

    At first, I tried to endure it.

    Endure for my family, my friends

    But no one knows my secret

    I can't feel or breathe. All emotion seems so

    Shallow. I act and mimic my way through life

    Never really feel a thing, never really breathing

    Breathing? How to breathe? I have forgotten.