Breathe

We are nothing but breath

boil us down

Reanimate us

Inhale, exhale

I'd like to capture for you bittersweet

because the feeling I get

it reverberates in my ribcage and I think that it might just send me over the edge

the only word for it is bittersweet

the kind of sensation you can only get when you are

Truly

Alone

Inhale

Bittersweet like close to splitting apart at the seams

so close to sublime,

it aches.

Brick walls warmed in the sun offer far more support than -

Exhale

I sat in the back of that theatre

allowed the tears to run down my face

stone

as you stood in the lens-flare suspended reality of the stage

Breathe.

The mantra is to forget but if it is forgotten then what's the point?

I don't want to forget a thing I just want to feel

bass-shake-my-bones

That's all it is,

Breath,

Altered consciousness I implore you

Show me the way

I have no god

I am godless

I saw a city on a hill through a haze but I didn't know what it meant or how I'd gotten across the street

Enlighten me

Reduce me until I am nothing but

Breath

Magnetic force moon pull tide

I crave your oxygen

Moon pull tide

inhale, exhale

Can we breathe

Moon pull tide

Attain a higher consciousness

I am ignorant

Enlighten me

Elevate me

Exhale, let fingers of your soul graze your lips from within, clasp those fingers with mine

Inhale

Beat, shake

A noise, a feeling so other it resonates in your marrow

I'd like to forget my pronouns let words trail off into...

Breath

Inhale, exhale

I know nothing of the sublime only

Inhale, exhale

Peel away your identity until you are left with nothing but

Inhale, exhale

Reality extends no further than the reaches of your finger tips

Electrical impulses read them like telegrams like love letters like lost languages

Read me

Decode me

I have nothing left to hide

Radio frequency crackling signal lost

Inhale

One day this will all just be a fever dream

Exhale