Living Breathless
by SEASECRETS (Member) - published: March 25, 2008
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All the people I
Have slept with
The arms I have
Slept in

Not one person
Breathed slower
Than me
Not one

Like a bull breathing
Red
Their breath
Frightens me

Awake
I count their
Breaths
For every five
I take three

And I wonder
What kind of life
They live
That their lungs
Cannot rest

That moment of stillness
A moment where
I can live
Without the act
Of living
That moment of suspension

Like every sin is
All ready taking
The life out
Of him

And the girls full
Of discontent
Running
From something
As they sleep

Why can’t they learn
How to breathe like me
Take it slow
And easy

Breathe to live
But learn to live
Without your breath

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"You're so free, yeah you were right about me,
Can I get myself back from underneath this guilt that will crush me,
And in the choir i saw a sad messiah,
He was bored and tired of my laments,
said 'I died for you one time but never again.'"
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The following comments are for "Living Breathless"
by SEASECRETS

breathe to live
I realize it's about meditation but I also read unhappiness in it. As if others are trying hard to please you and you just don't feel it. So to speak...

But then again you are the female Jesus, or something like that, aren't cha? So I guess breathing is just a way of feeling human.

So sayeth the male Magdalene. I would say Lot's wife's name instead but she is never mentioned by name. Typical prophets...

( Posted by: desvelado [Member] On: March 26, 2008 )

Desvelado
it's icicle actually Des lol
thank you for remembering the other piece though!
this piece was about meditation you are correct....unhappiness probably seeped into it too...it seemed more enlightening in my meditation...when it came to actually writing it i feel i missed the essence of what i reached :(
oh well
thanx for reading!

( Posted by: IcicleIcicle [Member] On: March 26, 2008 )

That's me
yeah ...the comment above was me
woops i forgot to swtich users

( Posted by: SEASECRETS [Member] On: March 26, 2008 )

Sybil?
Ah, a woman who admits to having multiple personalities...

As Terence would say, "Shexxxxy..." Or something like that. His grammatical skills are questionable at times.

Why two profiles? I also have two but that's because I got impatient with Lit when I first joined and tried a second time. My other profile is FRToscano but I have never used it.

( Posted by: desvelado [Member] On: March 26, 2008 )

heavy breathing, deep sleeping
Reminds me of that bit in Alice in Wonderland:

“You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!”

It is the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped…

but beyond that, this read to me like a gathering of energies, the calm before the great storm, the existence/ nature of the slow-breather being much deeper, far more controlled, far more aware, than those in whose arms and with whose bodies she lies… I have the feeling the slow-breather is in possession of wisdom beyond her years, and the dark alone she thinks over her lot, that deep well inside of her that others do not seem to possess…

letting go and being still is a tough trick, not many ever get the hang of it. I still haven’t. thank you for the brooding eloquence of this. best to you.

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: March 27, 2008 )

Thanx Auld
thank you for your comment Auld
i really enjoy the alice bit
i would have to agree about the calm before a storm....or perhaps the eye of a hurricane
i always love hearing from you! your responses make me feel like my poetry is more than just feelings on a screen :)

as to the multiple personas Des
i created this one cause an ex of mine was super sensative...and i liked to show him my writing...but sometimes it wasnt always kind ..and i needed a place to put it without him knowing

i still use her cause icicle is the ones i let my friends read
secrets is the one they dont read

thanx for reading!

( Posted by: SEASECRETS [Member] On: March 28, 2008 )

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