Lisa Barton Poet I do not know?

I Need To Know Your Breathing

Sit and listen to the children breathing, rise and fall, rise and fall. eyes are 
brimming, paint a tear streaked face now. Watch them fall, watch them fall. Go to 
school now, draw a pretty picture. Feel so small, feel so small. It’s too late, you’ve 
been waiting alone. Lost it all, lost it all. 

Little children, lie down now. Catch your breath for once. Wrap up within your 
selves. I need to see your chest rise and fall. I need to know you’re breathing. 

She fell down and you watched it happen.  Saw her crying, saw her crying. 
Cupped your face you nearly lost it all. Felt him dying, felt him dying. You don’t 
know the words that slip from your mouth. Are you lying, are you lying? Know the 
knife as it slips you your dose. Love the pain, love the pain. 

Little children, lie down now. Catch your breath for once. Wrap up within your 
selves. I need to see your chest rise and fall. I need to know you’re breathing. 

Rise and fall, rise and fall…rise and fall. I need to know you’re breathing, 
breathing, breathing…

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