Losing Breath Poem
A Spoken word poem from "Wide Awake"
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Words:
Air
that all consuming vapor, that could set sail
sent swirling
With any sudden exhale of mybreath
only the steady wind from my lips keeps me in balance
In check
And last time I checked,
breathing was a necessity
Necessary especially for my mind to think correctly,
but barely ever thought about directly
You see you have to lose something
before worrying about the catching
Cause in a minuscule moment the oxygen flew from my lungs
through my tubes
and out into the atmosphere
Without even a, "see you later"
Or, "I'll just be right here!"
Enter fear
A gut punch
A fall down the stairs
That precise second where literally nothing’s in there
In-between heartbeats
Everything's second to
or far beneath
The haunting clarity that the one thing
keeping me alive
Has momentarily
disappeared.
Panicking through the affair,
Chasing air with every pathetic moan and sound that escapes my mouth
As if it even cares
as if it matters
As if it is sympathetic to issues of my fate?
No.
The atmosphere around me just sits,
And waits...and waits,
waits for me to make the first move
That fatal mistake
The choice I make
is a fork in a nanoseconds path that is either
Lose
or Win
either asphyxiate
Or breath back in.
