to breathe

A place in time exists

Before we realized what existence meant

What an effort brought  ...to us

 ...before our first thought or belief occurred

As a separate place where we might be known

…there was a life implanted in our seed

There was a current which compelled us to be

To make our spirit rise by need greater than all but our will to live

An urgent messenger from within which we had no recourse but to comply

…like a leaf once fallen from the tree

Caught by the wind, never to know whether placed by fate and circumstance

In a place floating upon a stream following a dream not fully realized

Taken somewhere within pulled by emotions tides

To a quiet place where our souls reside as if in flight outside time and space

Rising from the depths of our first moment of the understanding  ...we're alive

Once written into life as yet, not to realize at any moment... our name

Could be erased, forever from the chapter in the book just now, being read

To be abandoned as if an egg left unfertilized outside the womb

Of a place where we've lost our ability to remember

From where we've come or where we're headed

Nor offer explanation

Of how we feel

Inside

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