Breathe life
Taking a breath seems so easy
I fill my longs trough nose or mouth
the air does not reach my midriff
and sometimes I do not even know
So busy doing my daily things
with all duties life demands
my head filled with unimportant details
I need to do more valuable tasks
Keep me off doing were I am good at
and drag me in their empty needs
in a useless fabricated economic system
at least so it seems to me
with no way to escape from the pressure
from society with his rules and laws
I have to do what they ask from me
so I can pay the monthly bills
Survival is the result of the fighting
I just keep on reminding myself
there is no need to doubt my being
and that I have a right to breathe life
© Jet Rood
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Submitted by Jet-Rood on April 19, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 683 |
| Words | 145 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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