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Breathe in, breathe out, there, you have just successfully converted oxygen into carbon dioxide, you have been productive, you have done enough today to give the trees a job, like a tired mother, they go around un-doing everything you've worked so hard on, In, out, muscles relaxing, tension releasing, carbon dioxide expelled, diluted by the oxygen, in, out, lungs burning, legs aching, quick, sharp, inoutinoutinout, hands on hips, bent at the waist, a long red ribbon laying broken at your feet, inoutin out in out in out, calming, slowing until it is normal again, in, o-, your breathe catches, heart beating faster, eyes locked, a great love epic in the making, the carbon dioxide sitting in your lungs waiting for you to remember to release it, screaming lungs silenced by a pounding heart, insides so loud, outsides completely silent. OUT, in, out, lungs comforted, heart calmed by the brain, continue walking, normal, in, out, the trees following behind you, fixing all the air you have ruined, and giving it back to you, once again.
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Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM UTC
Oxygen
Breathe in, breathe out, there, you have just successfully converted oxygen into carbon dioxide, you have been productive, you have done enough today to give the trees a job, like a tired mother, they go around un-doing everything you've worked so hard on, In, out, muscles relaxing, tension releasing, carbon dioxide expelled, diluted by the oxygen, in, out, lungs burning, legs aching, quick, sharp, inoutinoutinout, hands on hips, bent at the waist, a long red ribbon laying broken at your feet, inoutin out in out in out, calming, slowing until it is normal again, in, o-, your breathe catches, heart beating faster, eyes locked, a great love epic in the making, the carbon dioxide sitting in your lungs waiting for you to remember to release it, screaming lungs silenced by a pounding heart, insides so loud, outsides completely silent. OUT, in, out, lungs comforted, heart calmed by the brain, continue walking, normal, in, out, the trees following behind you, fixing all the air you have ruined, and giving it back to you, once again.
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hannah-southard
29/American
Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM UTC
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