#breathing poems on Hello Poetry

Poet X Sep 2019

I swear I’m not a love poet but

loving you
makes me scared of dying .

I know what it’s all about now,
I get why the sun rises
and the moon sets.
I understand why the stars shine
and the birds chirp.
I get why the heart beats
and the lungs breathe.

I get it now,
why I’m alive.

loving you is the only thing I feel good at .

#love #living #alive #breathing #heart #moon #sun #stars #scared

Tamera Pierce Aug 2019

Words

Soft vibrations
waft through the air and
touch my ears like water on the edge of the pier.
They caress and ******
as if they know that I'm close to shattering my own walls.
I can barely feel them press against my teeth
barely taste the copper laced with sugar as they slide down my throat
and can't even feel them wrap around my lungs.

#lungs #breathing #****** #vibrations #love #life

Empire Aug 2019

I Don't Want to Fight

Trigger warning: Self harm, cutting, suicidal thoughts

Every ******* DAY

i'M fighting

for sanity
for safety
                              for... something...        .           ..    .

I. AM. TIRED.

just get the ******* voices

OUT

but what the **** am i supposed to do????
i have to keep ******* living
                   breathing... . ...        .. .

BECAUSE YOU ALL COULDN'T HANDLE IT

I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
I JUST WANT TO GIVE UP
.        ...           .
.    ....            .. .. ..
. .    .    .. . . . . . . ..
                                                    i.... .. i just...  .. ........        . ...     . . . . . .. .
i just want to give up.

I have the strength
To win this battle
So, I must.

But it's not what I want

I never get what I want!

I JUST WANT TO
BLEED\
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...'cause maybe.... ... . .. . .  just maybe.. . ...
it'll be enough
to appease the demons
just enough
to offer one night's peace

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Poured a lot of darkness out into this one...
It doesn't have as much power once it's on the page

#fight #sanity #tired #life #living #breathing #selfharm #peace #pain

Artemis Aug 2019

drowning

everything you say
resonates with me like a
headache.

the pounding of your
words
against my porcelain skull
shoots fire and lightning
down my cracking spine.

my lungs are glass
and your name shattered them

and broke me.

each breath rattles.
each breath chokes.

what's the point of breathing
when there's no air?

#broken #hearts #lungs #breathing #ache #glass #name #pain #love

Indigo Morrison Aug 2019

I am here and I love you.

...trying to take this heart,
this healing,
all this fragile,
day by day
task by task.
a new getting out of bed.

some days I am still healing,
others...
the wound has just
opened back up for me
and I’m stitching,
I’m breathing,
I’m moving always,
but standing still.
...one does not negate the other for me.
but I am here
and I love you.

#poetry #spilledink #healing #breathing #moving #stitching #heart #iloveyou #fragile

The Vault Aug 2019

Kiss me Hard

Take a deep breath
Kiss me hard
Forget the pain
We got this far
Forget our mistakes
We got what it takes
To get through this
Just give me a kiss
So I can get lost
Is this bliss.

#kiss #love #lust #living #breathing #lost

miki Aug 2019

i don’t know, i just wish i wasn’t breathing

i don’t know
i just wish i wasn’t normal
if i wasn’t normal
would that change your mind?

i don’t know
i just wish i wasn’t ugly
if i wasn’t ugly
would that change your mind?

i don’t know
i just wish i wasn’t breathing
if i wasn’t breathing
would that change your mind?

i don’t know
i just wish i hadn’t loved you
if i hadn’t loved you,
would i be alive?

third stanza and title are lyrics from a snippet of ‘i don’t know, i just wish i wasn’t breathing’ by billie eilish <3

#sad #breathing #death #mind #love #alive #ugly #normal #depression #poetry

Pluto Jul 2019

BREATHE !

Breathe !

I softly lay my lips on yours
With eyes shut and only the sound of my raging heart calling your name

BReathe !

Our toungues wrestling like komodo dragons
With blood rushing through every inch of my veins

BREathe !

I dig and scratch my fingers into you back
Trying to claw my way into the very essence of your soul

BREAthe !

I pause and push you gently and become lost in your pale blue eyes once more
I see the ocean...the sky...the stars...and reach again as your pupils dilate

BREAThe !

My body pulsates as I call your name
Like a man drowning in the ocean

BREATHe !

Please stop...I softly whisper in your ear
With my last breath...as death do as part

BREATHE !

#itsgoodtofeelalive #breathing #kiss #beatifuldeath #death #past #memory

Sumaira Asghar Aug 2019

Untitled

How many times do I
have to remind myself:
"You have to let it go
so that your heart doesn't break
and your soul doesn't ache.
If it was right it would stay"

But all I urge to do is
grab your collar
and shout at my loudest volume:
"Can you give up on breathing
and still hope to live? "

#breakup #heartache #reminder #soul #urge #hope #breathing