Before we can speak
Before we can cry
Before we can even
Open our eyes
Before we can hunger
Before we can thirst
Before we can be at
Our bests and our worsts
Before we can reason
Before we can smile
Before we can feel all
Our hardships and trials
Before we can wonder
Before we can live
Before we can open 
Our hearts up to give
Before we can love
Before we can seethe
We first open up
Our lungs to breathe
So easy, so simple
A natural process
So then why am I left
Gasping for a breath?
If this is something
I should do with ease
Then how did I seem to
Forget how to breathe??
                            9-12-2011 4:25pm