Alone?

If I yell and no one hears me, do I even make a sound?

No tree or creature could take me back to life.

Why is it in this forest that the silence seems so loud?

The misty fog in the air cuts me like a knife.

Am I alone if I'm surrounded by those who breathe and cry and eat?

Who sleep and stalk and hunt like us people of the night?

The trees that keep me in this trap send shockwaves to my feet,

So to say I'm alone here in these woods would be a sentence incomplete.

If nobody finds me here, I will not be afraid.

In a peaceful state of mind, comforted by birds who flitter flatter;

In the real world, everyone betrays or is betrayed.

So if I yell and no one hears me, what does it really matter?