Breathe

I am learning to breathe.
Two panic attacks and a change in medication
Have brought me to this place
Of floating inside outside myself
Mind flux
Wondering what will happen
When my mind short circuits my ability to work
And I am left leaving
Downshift to upshift?

I am learning to breathe.
Chest cold body temperature three degrees below normal
Subnormal yet hyper aware
Body seismic earthquake
Reverse flu habitat
Mind shifting from sand to sea
Drifting spaces panic to calm
Two hours to normal
Wandering seize.

I am learning to breathe.
Some rhythmic flow
Do not circle my mind
Pace my feet
Hour after hour
Robbing my sleep
Reach beyond
For-Next loop
Outside connection
Teach me to breathe.

I am learning to breathe.
God of the obvious
Guide my awareness
Even though I don't quite believe
I know I can do
More than myself
Love breathe connect
Beyond this place
You are
More I can be
Breathe

Denis Streeter 1/19/14

Epiphanies

I'd like a bowl of epiphanies
That dry cereal cold milk awareness
Swirling down my throat, prickling chest
Heart mind awareness light tingling
Body illuminated bulb growing
Fresh shoots tingling spine
Flowing central stream
Connecting all one source
Pinpoint light prickle through
Me to you
Some odd shared stream
Epiphanies me open
Cold milk my senses
Rehydrate me with
Substance of spirit.

Denis Streeter 1/5/14