How Do You Do It?

How Do You Do It?

How do you do it?

How do you carry your pain

without announcing it to the world?

How do you swallow your hurt

without choking on it every single time?

I really want to know—

how you managed to carry so much sorrow in your chest

without it collapsing under the weight.

How you survived such betrayal

without reeking of bitterness.

Because I, too,

want to learn how to carry my pain in silence,

to swallow my hurt without it tearing me apart,

to hold sorrow without sinking,

to survive betrayal

without becoming bitter.