When the anxiety has built
And built
And you
Are standing
On top of a 10,000 foot tower
With clenched fists
Looking down
And you don’t know
Where the next breath
You are going to take is
Coming from anymore
Keep breathing
It is in you
Somewhere
Keep breathing
You don’t have to look
You don’t have to think
You just have to breathe
No one
Is asking you
To be anything
Other than human
Keep breathing
Keep breathing
— an excerpt from poems that have only ever lived inside my brain
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