Too Many Breaths

Sticking to this week's theme of the surreal and subjective, here's a poem that I wrote, late last night:

Too Many Breaths

i-79260b3766b15f547a8330ebbd8bf09b-smoke.jpgBurning through too much stuff

Organizing too many projects

Too many ideas floating in my head

Yet

I breathe

Working too much of the time

Commuting too many miles

Too many people in this land

Yet

I breathe

Using too much of the oil

Cutting down too many mountains

Too much consumption to keep on

Yet

I breathe

Learning too much to remember

Finding too many possibilities

Too much knowledge for one poem

Yet

I breathe

Understanding we're too insignificant

Seeing too many stars to count

Too many souls in the universe

Yet

I breathe

Aging with too much potential

Growing too many cells in the body

Too much unknown in the future

Yet

I breathe

Reading too much between the lines

Guessing at too many of my words

You breathe

Too.

KLF (3/7/007)

Smoke art via Hanging Pixels

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http://magicdragon.com/EmeraldCity/Poetry/LoveDeathPoems.html

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