Ode to breath

Wise man said

“We tend to love things we lose”.

Maybe this is the reason I’m grieving

over the goodbyes I did not choose.

Easy come, easy go

this is what life is all about.

In one instant we are here,

in the other we are out.

A short time-lapse is our only gift and sin.

So I’m appreciating my lungs,

their mechanical ability to evolve air

and keep me on this magical act that is breathing.