Learning How To Breathe by Delwen Doyle

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Learning How To Breathe

Your kisses still burn on my lips
Your voice still echoes in my ears

I still feel the traces of your fingertips
& Your hot breath caught in my hair

I know I have to come to grips:
I’ll never be told the words I wish to hear

You’re that something I need
A something no longer there

So I’m learning how to breathe -
How to breathe without air

It’s the way the stars don’t shine
The way the sky stays gray

It’s the way I want to make you mine
When you’ve already drifted away

It’s so hard to ignore this heartache
When your smell lingers on the sheets

How I hope one day I’ll wake, (Now that it’s cold & empty)
And you’ll be lying next to me (This bed just seems too big)

You’re that something I need
A something no longer there

So I’m learning how to breathe -
How to breathe without air.

Delwen Doyle

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Michael Manners (7/9/2008 11:39:00 AM)
i'm no good at commenting on poems,
but this is an excellent poem, I give it a 10!


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