Thursday, June 21, 2018

Reminder to Catch My Breath

Every breath I push through without break

My skin grows callous

Layer upon layer forming with hard labor

Closing airflow passageways

A plaque to the arteries of oxygen

Deliberately chosen by ignoring signals

The changing terrain

Driving forward into the sandpit

Despite feeling the loss of traction

Foot pressing more and more desperately on the accelerator

Too stubborn to turn back and regroup

At the last possible moment I breathe out

A gasping explosion of acceptance

This is not a game of inward-facing Chicken

One breath in

One breath out

And I stay in place

As I elongate my breath out I begin to reverse course

It is twice as hard to go back

Next time I will remember to slow down

Heed the signs

And breathe




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