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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2002-03-20 05:38 PM


THE AIR I BREATHE

Ominous and silent is the air I’m breathing in
each breath a useless entity like a shadow song
trailing far behind the music of my soul.

In and out, in and out, it keeps me dead alive
buried in a shallow grave of its monotony
dull and deadly, passionless,
slowly in I breathe
and breathe again inside
the air of no desire.

So numb I cannot feel intakes of hopefulness
or pleasures of release in sighs of thankfulness
but life support of memory filters in delight
when I remember feeling each breath inside my heart.

It pumped with a vibrancy,
down, down, down, down and down
to the very core where life began once more
and rose up again, up and higher up,
and out with a burst like fire flamed with wind.

Now it is still weighted with my lack of will
and its journey labours through body cells decayed.
I’m breathing air of lies waiting for the rush of truth
incubating in a tank until the time is right.

Right, left, middle, end, or how it’s meant to be?
Questions have no answers until the sand is cleared
and I emerge again from the shallow grave I’m in!

HMH

© Copyright 2002 Helen - All Rights Reserved
Broken
Member
since 2000-03-12
Posts 271
The woods
1 posted 2002-03-20 10:12 PM



Effective rythm made it good to read, especially liked these two stanzas.

"So numb I cannot feel intakes of hopefulness
or pleasures of release in sighs of thankfulness"

Nicely done.

~Broken~

Base not your joy upon the deeds of others,
for what is given can be taken away. -Peter Steele

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2002-03-21 02:20 PM


Thank you for reading.  Too many "bugs" in the air I breathe these days - got to blame something I guess.
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