My life has not been easy

But I do not give in.

I keep moving on,

Even though I never win.

People ask me what my secret is;

Why do I keep breathing

When I am losing, nothing;

Havoc is all that I am wreaking?

When everything I touch

Turns to dark,

And everything I love

Breaks my heart?

So I will tell you why I breathe,

But you must listen quick.

Sit back and open up your mind,

And learn what makes me tick.

I walk along

A path that never ends,

Wondering where the wind is going

And what message that it sends.

I follow darkness

So that I can breathe the light,

And I carry peace inside

So I don't have to fear the night.

I breathe in

I breathe out.

I watch the world go by,

Following it's own route.

I sit in my garden,

Thinking on the sky,

Wondering at diamond buds

And planets that can fly.

I stand on a tower,

Peering at the ground below,

Wondering what it would feel like

To be the wind's great undertow.

I breathe in

I breathe out.

I let myself feel sadness

So that I can fight it's clout.

I breathe in

Have you figured it out?

Mt secret is that I breathe in

To breathe out.

And that is how I survive.

That is how I am free.

I breathe in to breathe out

The darkness that is me.