All That Remains

When you’re suffocated

The world just caves in

collapsing into your every heaving breath

and suddenly-

you’re drowning in another world

in embraces that check your tongue;

in ways you couldn’t have fathomed. 

And yet-

like an ignorant idiot individually invisible

to the naked eye

your tongue is leashed to your throat. 

Though they all say you place yourself

in such a situation to be treated like toys?

so the fire erupts and devours what you cannot say

and let them call you a coward

so when you’re left on your own to suffocate in suffering,

Do you hear yourself?

YOU are all that remains.