A note before the poem:
‘This is one of the many poems I loved from my second sel-published anthology 'The Soul Is Born', which I released back on 7th March, 2023.
For me, it was a grounding poem. I can suffer with bouts of dissociation,and as such this method of focusing on my breathing brought me back to the present, reminded me I was indeed alive, I was here, and I was breathing.
If you enjoy what you read, please do consider picking up a copy. Whilst I believe I did (and still do) have a ways to go as a writer, it is still full of some of my favourite poems I have written.
-Josh’
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Let the air fill your lungs.
Feel your cells lift and deflate.
Gallons upon gallons of blood
gallop through your veins.
It needs to be fed.
So feed it,
and let your heart distribute the rations.
That's what it means to be alive.
You are alive.
You are breathing.
