an intake of breath

Take your words
and slide them beneath my skin
I want to remember this exact moment
and how it feels

Let your words be a breath
of peace in world that keeps
trying to bury me

Let this feeling be the life
I've been missing
between every painful
inhale and exhale
and reminds me that my heart
knows more beauty than pain
and that my sadness is fleeting

Take your words  
slide them beneath my skin
and reminds me
how it feels to be alive