Just Breathe

Breathe. Just breathe. Focus on the sweet pull of oxygen from your surroundings while forgetting those surroundings.

Forget. Forget your tears. Forget the indignity. Forget the evil.
Live completely in the moment

Deny that moment.
Deny the pain you felt, the embarrassment you suffered, the evil you created.

Breathe in oblivion, and breathe out memory.

It's all about the breath.

Breathe, and you calm. You don't hurt. Breathe, and you can watch your hands move without being conscious of the acts they're performing.

Breathe, and you can detach and float away.

Up, up and away...only to be dragged back into the hemisphere as someone breathes you in and out.

You swim among their lungs, you jet up and out of their throat, you lose yourself...until you blink, and find yourself still in pain, still suffering, still committing unspeakable acts.

And so you b r e a t h e again.