I take a deep breath
and slowly
ever so slowly
let it go.
I feel it seeping
into my flailing limbs
coursing through my doing
bubbling through my brain.
It is content
to distribute itself as it pleases
to go where it wants
at its own pace.
No anxious breath has this capacity.
No! that breath screams to be released.
Forces its way out.
Gasps for more.
This breath is not that breath.
This breath is patient,
satisfied
dignified
content with its status.
This breath makes no demands
except, as it were,
when it has run its course,
and has supplied my need.
And now I need another.
This deep breath
exits slowly
without fanfare
making way for the next.
I do not thank this breath
do not consider its significance
its magnificence
its wonder.
I simply take another
and another
as if I was made for this
and it for me
As if it would go on forever
as if I would.
Grate.....full.....
