Keep Breathing

• Jacqueline Feldman, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2018

silent tears, swallowed by fear - she's immersed
a world made out of glass, am i still going to shatter first?

keep breathing.

a patch of heavy worries sewn into her delicate lungs
misconceptions - her bones start to crack one by one.

keep breathing.

the bitter taste of her dreams at the tip of her tongue
uneasy mind , don't remember the neglect - it stung.

keep breathing.

why is it that we cause the most destruction to each other?
life - uncertain and precious, let's not take it from one another.

you're alive. keep breathing.