"Breathe..."

s M t w t f s

"Breathe..."

...and I wanted to find you,
if but for a minute,
a second... a heartbeat
a moment's blink...

an eternity's gaze.

I guess that says it all
doesn't it?
The wanting - to find
another
for even an instant.

We can't always have...
but god we CAN hope,
and just maybe -

maybe find
the need to remember how to breathe
- in our lives.

Chris

Author's Note

feel free

Reviews

[Larry Dyson]

the ease with which you allow these to roll off your pen...appreciated..Laury

[Ruth]

The jolt is often searched, hoped, wished for...there needs to be an emoticon for a huge sigh when I read you ...

[Chris]

You are appreciated.

[Emerald Seas]

You've captured a moment, perfectly.
Breathe... hope... continue...
People touch our lives in different ways. Some with a lasting print to stay with us. Others a passing nod. All having a purpose in our lives. A few we hold close in our hearts forever, even if we can't "have" them nearby. Love the first stanza!

[Renée]

This one Poet..takes my breath..

[Emily B]

i remember reading this at the time it was posted, can't quite remember how it was that i couldn't find words to speak

maybe i was waiting until the words could find a proper home

[Reeti]

the first conception i found when studying literature of different forms years back, is that nothing is everlasting. everything we have felt within our consciousness, it is most sad to say, at some point, fades and disappears into nothingness. our memories of a deceased person or lost experiences belonging to our past baffles us. this perception is found pungently throughout your poem. it is a vital constituent of forming literature to evoke a person to hold something or someone dearer (say, our own breathe. why waste our positive energy while we are alive). the poem is partly morbid. yet, if a person were to say this aloud with complete intention, it will sound theatrical and captivating without any artificial tones.

[MoriartyMesa]

It is instructional and does not want for gripping effect, but stands on its own.

[MOON]

Prana is the Sanskrit word for the life force , the energy the breath. Lovely write

[Pi Cee]

Hope with a gaze, a breathe with a sigh. A heart...longing. Longing for anything.