I Breathe You, a poem from, Poetry Volume One, by Rose Mary Johnson, U.S. Copyright
I cannot speak it all.
The words are hidden.
In the fear,
for I am small.
You – who are you?
I smile and my heart breaks too.
I yearn and from you have I learned.
Love can be for all concerned.
I breathe you.
Small I am.
Life lives again.
Love mends.
Where have you come from?
I meet you again,
into my life you descend.
But what may come?
I fear – a smile and my heart breaks too.
For my life I have learned,
what I hold dear,
Disappears…
Runaway…
Fear
I push away most dear.
You.
For what have I done?
My breath is gone.
I cry memories.
A short repeating series.
All the while,
I breathe you.
Small I am.
My heart breaking again.
Life I will live on through it all.
Memories of you I recall.
I breathe you.
Small I am.
But you made me tall.
And I will do best I can.
Breathing you.
Again and again…