Words We Cannot Speak

selfish inhaling

I loathe the self indulgent volumes of oxygen that i consume,
As though i selfishly inhale far more than my fair share of this hemisphere.
Every breath denying someone else of their last or first or just another
(I wonder how many breaths we take in a life time)
double it and add seven for that is the number of greedy mouthfuls i steal from the planet with my shallow breathing or pauses between syllables.
-by holly Boyd