Sunday, April 6, 2025

Not Breathing

        In past times swimming

I was determined in

Ways untested.  Far

Enough away to be

Able to say I’d given up

Thinking of being there,

Failing in being despite


The old confidence

I had back when melded

To my current state of mind

Which while blended

To each conscious step, left

When I dreamed of being

Beneath the kelp drifting,


Dreaming like a bass in

The sun which shined down 

Between the leaves bright

In the world where no

One breathes.  Small fish

Swirl away leaving large

Ones like me breathless.

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