{"id":140127,"date":"2023-09-03T02:18:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140127"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:18:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:18:32","slug":"hour-15-deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-15-deep-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 15: deep breath"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time <\/span>
\n<\/span>She walks in the room and I\u2019m hanging out <\/span>
\n<\/span>Books line the wall but I\u2019m just sitting here <\/span>
\n<\/span>I\u2019m looking almost right at her, and she looks at me too.. <\/span>
\n<\/span>but there seems to be something in between. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Stressed, pale and white like me <\/span>
\n<\/span>but there\u2019s something different\u2026<\/span>
\n<\/span>She\u2019s not still. I want to help her. <\/span>
\n<\/span>She turns her eyes and I count for her, <\/span>
\n<\/span>1, 2, 3, 4, one, two, three, four <\/span>
\n<\/span>1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 <\/span>
\n<\/span>She counts with me, but sometimes she doesn\u2019t. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Sometimes she looks in the mirror while she does it and I think<\/span>
\n<\/span>It comforts her<\/span>
\n<\/span>And while I might not always know,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I know she\u2019s trying and breathing when she can. <\/span>
\n<\/span>She\u2019s beautiful. <\/span>
\n<\/span>I hold it all for her when she can\u2019t and I count till she\u2019s back <\/span>
\n<\/span>1, 2, 3, 4, one, two, three, four, <\/span>
\n<\/span>1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>It\u2019s time<\/span>
\n<\/span>It\u2019s sitting there like a fly on the wall, the sheet<\/span>
\n<\/span>Waving back and forth\u2013 like a friend from far away <\/span>
\n<\/span>A certain nervousness in my stomach, one I really think has been fabricated through words from unaligned energies and pictures in places I didn\u2019t mean to look at <\/span>
\n<\/span>I do listen, funny enough, but not when it\u2019s staring me down like it is now, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Though I do try, and so, it\u2019s there<\/span>
\n<\/span>Waiting for me to enter this blue room and hold it so \u2013 reading the words <\/span>
\n<\/span>and repeating them in my mind. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Counting, 1,2,3,4, hold, one, two three, four, <\/span>
\n<\/span>exhale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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