there is less air moving into my lungs than yours.
I’m not bragging.
I just can’t breathe
not all the way.
never all the way.
I forget that not everyone
breathes the same way I do.
that not everyone sees,
lives, loves the way I do.
tell me
what is it like to feel the
fullness of your lungs
expand inside yourself?
I might never know
and yet,
I keep breathing
AMV
I am feeling taken over by anxiety. My body is a land that is being colonized, ravaged by something outside myself. Something unwelcome. Something devastating. Something utterly unrelenting, undiscern
1. The air is thin now. I breathe deeper and fuller. Inhale; taste the wind. 2. Body. Overwhelmed. Salty tears, mistaken for Sadness. Grief. Relief. 3. In small ways, create a home, a life in moments.
a collection of affirmations to say and know: I am resilient. I listen to and trust my own desires. I am my own. I do not apologize for who I am. I am brave and vulnerable. There are things only I can
