Exhale

Only breath to calm the soul

Only an overwhelming presence…

                Inhale

Let your lungs fill with dirty air

As your body embraces depression

                Allow your mind to grip the hurt

As your skin speckles with mountains of sin

Pause

                                                No breath

Let your heart cling to the filth inside your soul

Every sorrow engulfed tightly in the veins of your heart

Where life and joy was once held

Rest and let your body suffer without the vital flow of oxygen

Feel your bones screaming for life

As your heart cries to be set free

                EXHALE

Let your lungs erupt and demand broken chains

As the veins that were once coiled in pain are unleashed by the pounding of a living heart

Let the grime of a sinful past

Pour into the hands of forgiveness

And experience the life that has been cemented in place of the pain

                go

Live in an abundance of joy

Knowing that with every breath

                I AM

With you