#breathe poems on Hello Poetry

Sadie Grace Oct 2021

i'm ok

Sometimes my chest starts to hurt like a car is crushing me, choking the life out of my fragile body, and running me over and over and over again and again and again

And sometimes my hands start to shake like I’m old and can’t control my body and I can’t control it and I can’t stop and it just keeps going and going and going and going over and over and over again and again and again

And my head starts to spin and I think to myself “I’m dying” and I look around and see people talking but I can’t hear a thing and I can’t catch my breath and I can’t breathe and I gasp and I can’t breathe and I can’t catch my breath and I gasp and I think to myself “I’m dying”

And as I stand there with my chest hurting and my hands shaking and my head spinning and as I think I’m dying I start to hear over the commotion in my brain and I make out from all the noise someone saying “everything is going to be ok”

And all of a sudden I take a deep breath and as I breathe in a little bit of peace, I breathe out all of the tension and fog and mess and the repetition and the cycle of hell that my body just experienced

And I realize

Everything might be ok

And after a few moments

I can breathe again

And after a few moments, I wipe the tears from my eyes and stand up

And after a few moments

I’m ok

a poem about a panic attack

#ok #anxiety #fear #tears #chest #hurt #spin #peace #breathe #fresh

Tylor Oct 2021

My insides are freezing

My insides are freezing, every ounce of passion I have is boiling down to nothing
Echoes of chasmic silence have me surrounded
I am overwhelmed by this sudden surge of intense self-loathing
By the strong rusty winds, my existence seems grounded

I am turning cold and fragile every second, and all I long for is a wake-up call
A call harsh enough to burn my freezing insides
I am sick of the urge that wants me to hit my head against the wall
Cause now I am well aware of how in my head, the demonic hurting creature hides

I breathe in fear, it rushes through my blood so I could feel it in my bones and veins
Anxiety is like my shadow that lingers with me everywhere I go, I feel burdened
Feels like I am getting drenched alone in the nagging emptiness,
the whole of me drains
Even in the happiest of moments, everywhere it just pains

#emptiness #anxiety #fears #pain #demons #cold #silence #intense #breathe #bones

Khaniek Sep 2021

07/08/2021

I’ve been far too comfortable.
That’s not true.
I’ve been tolerating my discomfort, living amongst my pain, cuddling my burdens and stroking my grief.
I’ve mothered my depression into adulthood.

Far closer than my shadow it has become molded to me. A second skin.
It smiles with me,
We model new shoes, try new food and do crazy things together.

Every news is the same.
We’ve lost interest in this world.
If you had options, would you stay on this planet? Exist in this universe ? Is it that the stars are against us ?

We don’t have options though, do we..
With each heavy breath,
it is enough that I still breathe.

#hurt #less #breathe #more

Dave Robertson Sep 2021

Work/Life

Sometimes tears
don’t come from grief
or sudden pain,
from moments moved
by others’ stories
real or sharply imagined

Sometimes it’s just the steady
incessant
tap tap tap
of life that just won’t pause
for any cause or reason
for any chance of respite

We’ll often deny those tears
as weak
but listen as they speak
or they will never, ever stop

#stress #workload #noletup #breathe #pause #anxiety #depression

kay Sep 2021

breathe

would you let me breathe?
listen to all the ***** you say
needed space but there's no way
even I can't quit with a pray

everyone keeps on talking
but there's no one listening
to put the world on my back
instead of my hand

puts so much weight on the words
puts so much weight on the thoughts
everyone's in a rush
with no moment of hush

can we sit down and talk?
can we take a moment to breathe?
can we not run but walk?
can we take a moment to breathe?

everyone relax and let me breathe for a second, please.

#life #live #breathe #exhale #tired #suffocate #sit #slowdown #rush #melancholy

LC Sep 2021

a tale of food and drink.

my fingers fell into cinnamon buns.
the sticky, sweet icing coated my nails.
the residue - stubborn and unyielding -
but enticing to lick, making me sick.

then my lips flirted with sultry wine
that pulled me into its safe embrace,
letting me breathe a sigh of relief
as I stared into space, enamored.

#fingers #lips #sick #wine #embrace #relief #breathe #flirt #safe #space

julius Sep 2021

3/29/21

threading my fingers through your pink hair
warm silence rises out of open mouths
rose skin and water lilies float above water

#its #hard #to #breathe #even #now

Herena Rosas Aug 2021

Ang Marino at Ang Lumikha ng Karagatan

Huminga

Huminga

Huminga

Marinong napadpad sa kawalan
Na ang layag sana'y tungo sa kalayaan
Ngunit napagod
Kaya inanod

Sumikad ng mabilis at baka ika'y masilo
Huwag kang papahuli dahil ika'y solo
Sa gitna ng kawalan ika'y sumulong
Sapagkat marino,walang tutulong

Sarili ay paalpasin sa pagtangis
Kumawala sa nangangambang wangis
Iwaksi ang lumbay
Sa indayog ay sumabay

Marino,huwag kalimutang ika'y buhay
Hagupit lamang ito ng pagsasanay
Maglayag at umalis sa kulungan
Pumaroon kang muli sa KANYANG kanlungan

Huminga ka at Magpahinga

Pumaroon kang muli sa KANYANG kanlungan

#breathe #god #magpahinga #pahinga #paghinga #pagod #kanlungan