Poetry 🖋📖

Because while the time it’s frozen,

I listen to the sound of the silence,

Telling me that I should have care.

Care before, but I realize now,

How important I am to me,

While with you I couldn’t see it.

While I remember people telling me how bright I am,

I remember you telling me that I was nothing without you,

Because I couldn’t see what I did matter before.

I see it now with my both eyes wide open,

I matter because I have feelings,

I matter because I’m a bigger person than you ever be.

I matter because I can make somebody’s day better,

I matter because I know how to listen,

I matter because I’m a human being.

I matter because I’m me,

Because I like to be me,

Even if you don’t like it.

Because I stop caring for the whispers,

The whispers around me,

Whispers that scare you.

Because you want to fit,

In a place that it’s no made for you,

In a place that tears you apart.

You end up faking it all,

Because you don’t think anybody matters but you,

But we do, all of us matter.

I learn it the hard way,

Here I am building myself

I won’t let you break me again.

- Vanessa Diaz .