BREATH

How our lives are driven by events we don't even realize are occurring...oh... and a rare free verse from me

BREATH

 

I inhale and feel the universe press against my chest

It’s as if my breath is being drawn from the whole of creation

It flows though my flared nostrils barely tingling as it goes

Without thinking it passes down my throat and fills my lungs

 

A renewing lifeforce has just entered my being.. yet I am unaware

Upon such repeated ignorance my very life is dependent

So powerful and yet so subtle are the events that sustain me

And yet I dwell on the realities of a world of my own making

 

The pause between breaths is my only living view of eternity

An eternity that a few brief moments without breathing will surely bring

I do not fear the impending timeless extension of breathless pauses

For the unknowns of this universe are with me now, waiting for discovery

Reviews

[Ghost of Jupiter]

what a breathtakingly beautiful write...couldn't imagine a more perfect poem for me to have read today! This is going into my favs... thank you Roger, for sharing.

[Roger Turgeon]

( : O ) HUG

[Ghost of Jupiter]

Thank you I needed that...

[Frieda P]

We always seem to take those simple blessings for granted, until faced with something that looms larger than life, nice reminder in your poetry. Carpe the hell of this diem I always say, ;-)

Well pen'd Roger.

[Roger Turgeon]

Thanks Frieda.... now take a breath ( : O )

[Frieda P]

Will do, good thing you reminded me. My pleasure. ;-)

[Roger Turgeon]

or.... it's there but not what we what we want it to be...or need

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

Some things in life are always overlooked, until they are missing.
Nice write on your subject.

[Roger Turgeon]

Breath and relationships.... both needed to sustain us ( : O )

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

True, but sometimes they not clear or apparent in life; sometimes the relationship is missing.

[Tina Louise UK]

How we take such simple things for granted, food for thought....really enjoyed this piece! :) x

[Roger Turgeon]

I was getting in there a little deep wasn't I? LOL

[Tina Louise UK]

deep is good :) x