Just Breathe
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Just breathe
That’s what they all say
It will all be okay
Just breathe
That’s what they ALL
Say, time and time again
Over and over
Just breathe
But, how can I breathe?
When everything is going all wrong
Going all wrong
Gone all wrong....
When life gives you lemons
But all you can do is
Squirt your self in the eye
When everything is just so complicated
And you feel like
You’re looking up to the
Heavens, the great big heavens
With swirling, twirling, silver stars
And galaxies
And then you stop---
And think. Think about how small you are
How insignificant your life is
How unimportant you are.
You stop.
The skies seem to stare down at you
And say, you are all alone
When everything is so scary that it seems like a great canyon
Has opened up in front of you
A great black hole of rock and fear
That as it opens up in front of you
It seems to open up you heart too
To all that worry
And fear and anxiety
It tells you that you are not fine
You are not pretty like your friends
With flash and flare who don’t
Care AT ALL what people say.
Why don’t you care?
Why can’t I not care?
Why do I freeze like a scared rabbit
And hop away as fast as bunnily possible
It shouldn’t be “you’re a chicken”
It should be “you’re a bunny”
When everything has turned you upside down
Inside out--
You feel like a random
Shirt
Worn so much that you are worn out
And must now be washed
Washed of all the horrible things you have done
And all your thoughts -
All your ketchup stains
That fill your mind and tear you down piece by piece
scrap by scrap.
Until we are just bits of paper blowing in the wind,
random lines of poetry that won’t fit together,
no matter how hard we try.
Just breathe.
That’s hard.
When everything is sooo damn overwhelming--
You feel like you are underwater
Drowning, floundering, and yet somehow
Still breathing
But breathing only because you must
Not because you want to-
Not because you WANT to!
You came down here looking for Atlantis
But wound up finding Hell
The salty water swarms your thoughts and all you can
Even think of is how
Everything is so wrong!
You feel like a car crash
In slow motion
Watching yourself fall
and flail
and die.
Dead on arrival
Now just a ghost,
Condemned to wandering the halls
Wishing for a life
Just a shade
forever in Hades
stuck between the isle of the blessed and
true hell
watching bliss
and terror
Just breathe
That’s what they say
Just breathe
And sometimes... it works