“Breath leave if you must”

 Breath, leave if you must, for I have another to replace you with
As you bring void to my lungs and vanish into the invisible world
Where breaths collide reanimating other lives
Thoughts saturate the air then infiltrate my mind.

Heart beat stop if you must, for I have another that will not cost
Animating my heart restating my life in the interruption
Oh carnival of biological anticipation you are not frozen
Both breath and beat leave and I do not die.

Breath, leave if you must, for I have another to replace you with  
And as we wait for morning someone cuts our umbilical cord
We never learned to be who we are, we just existed
Breath, leave if you must, for I have another to replace you with.

And there is not a dream that is ours that did not belong to someone else
I breathe because it is not my breath… but it is Gods.
By Carlos Gomez / Water 11-6-15