Breath

"i would give you my breath"
                  - ANI DIFRANCO, 'Pulse'


and i'm scared to hear
you were dying before i knew you
choking on your own lungs
lying on the tiles

breathing is so easy
you tell me now
breathing is so easy

but do you know how my chest tightens
fearing for you?

i'd say it myself
if it had not been said before:

i would give you my breath.


April 7, 1998
© Lela Kaunitz