To breathe is to
Open your mind to anything
And to open your mind is to
Allow your imagination to become vulnerableI set up these walls around me
So that when I breathe
I will be not be succumbed to falsityBut when you appear
And press your hand against my walls
Whisper to them
I allow you to enter meOnly you
No one else
And I will not let you leaveYou are what fuels my imagination
You are what eases my breathing
What converts my CO2 lies into O2 beAutiesSo when you want to leave
"Only for a moment" you say,
I cannot fathom why you would do such a thingYour moment became centuries
My oxygen had been tainted
Everything
Is gone
YOU ARE READING
XIII
PoetryXIII (read as Thirteen). "There's nothing better than a glass of lies and an appetiser of intriguing words."