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Too Many Breaths

By chaoticutopia on March 8, 2007.

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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