Poetry Blogs (breathing)

An automatic bodily function,

we don't have to think, we just do.

From our first screaming breath, our in utero breathing, our final gasp.

We breathe.

But every breath is different.

This is my calming, in through the nose and out through the mouth, breath,

This is my deep breath and count to 10 that stops me losing my temper.

This is my quick breath when I'm teaching and talki...

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Stuttering awake
in the anxious hours
when white noise
no longer lets you sleep
In the mattress springs
a metronome
your percussive heartbeat
one thought then another
one worry trailed by the next
did what was said make sense?
was it understood
will this be good enough
impossible options
improbable odds
suddenly so awake
in the anxious hours
don’t forget
to breathe

Stuttering a...

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Time...

Who are you?

and where are you going?

What is your purpose? 

Are you all knowing?

Always here, always near,

every breath I shared with you.

I spent my life right by your side, 

and still I do not know you.

Time, are you just a 

fragment of my mind?

Something we made up 

because our senses make us blind?

Can we not comprehend 

the whole eternity?

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Here I go, take a step onto the stage called life.

Finally awake for the first time. Fully present here and now. What a gift.

Hold onto your handlebars. 

I take this breath like dope.

Into my blood, down into the depths of my being.

Where being is seeing.

Like a probe searching for answers.

My feet carry my swiftly as I walk.

Rooted firmly in the earth, I am strong.

Rema...

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i’m sinking in a pool of my own thoughts and my own mind

a whole sea full of water yet it’s full of nothing but air

do you hear me? 

there’s nothing really there yet i’m

drowning

i’m drownig and gasping for air...

drowning 

but no water is there? 

how the fuck is it possible for me to feel like i’m drowning when i thought i knew how to swim

drowning

i’m drowning becau...

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