How do I keep praying when it feels like no one is listening?

Almost everyone who has prayed for long has walked through this, so first: you are in good company, not in failure. Scripture itself is full of honest prayers that ask “how long?” — silence has never disqualified anyone from being heard. A few things that help many people: keep praying short and true rather than long and performed; God is not grading eloquence. Try praying with written prayers or a psalm when your own words run dry — borrowing language is not cheating, it is leaning on the family. And notice that faithfulness in a dry season is itself a kind of prayer; showing up when you feel nothing is trust in action. The silence is rarely absence. Often it is the space where something slower than words is growing.