Breath
Sheila Nicholls

We talked about loss
and the patterns of past
and the pieces of ourselves
we'd killed over time
We thought then of love,
and surrendered our eyes
and I looked for myself
through your dissolving disguise.

(Chorus)
My breath in is your breath out,
we begin and for a moment lifting this
deception of being separate from you
My breath in is your breath out,
we walk in, into the ocean, shifting my
perception of being one drop of dew

We talked about god and the limbs on the floor,
and the legalization of deviance
We thought then of sense and how often its veiled,
and how the machines and
their components have already failed

It's been years and I'm still here
longing for what has always been true,
life and death,
us and them are two parts of one
whole just misconstrued.

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