BREATHE

I'm walking in a body

Two stone lighter

I tell you everything around me

Is burning brighter

Brighter

The sun is shining through the trees

I'm painting a picture

I want you to see

Nobody talks about the fighter

Who takes a knee

Nobody wants to be

What nobody wants to see

The branches above me

Are like black calligraphy

Our children's young feet

Are kicking up the leaves

Kicking up the leaves

I remind myself

To Breathe

I remind myself

To Breathe

Reykjavik grey concrete

Red flags and turning cheek

Living in a dissonance

Between what you want to be feeling

And what you're really feeling

And what you're really feeling

Neuropathy and Daedalus

Therapy and litmus tests

Listlessness and medical trials

Your father's silence was a cry

To be saved from the loneliness

You've inherited the same distress

Between what you want to be feeling

And what you're really feeling

And what you're really feeling

Loneliness is your north star

Hiding in your family car

No one really asks how you are

You look up at the sky

Try to make yourself feel small