oxygen

Short Story by: writers art

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breathless talks about how we take things in life for grated .i have had asthma for years.i felt like i had gotten beyond the point of using my asthma med in doing so i almost died .i spent a week in the hospital just released Nov-21-2011.however with my faith in god and the love of my family i pulled through here to talk about my journey in to death.asthma is a silent killer so many people have lost their battle with asthma.u can fight it and win fight. please don't take your life for granted you have so much to live for.something as small as breathing can change in half of a second.just breathe

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Submitted: November 24, 2011

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Submitted: November 24, 2011

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BREATHELESS

Silentbreathe stolen in a moment of laughter footstepsfrozen in place knowing that this could be the last breath

FIGHTING TO LIVE air nowhere to be seen bits and pieces of air hard to come by words no more than whisper sounds of life slipping away Oxygen replaced with pollution lungs filled with Black Death Speechless waiting for the kingdoms ofnature to open up releasing. A chokeholdLungs sufferingjust one more breathe taken asthma holding life hostageair unfound

Searching for the keepers of oxygendistances away

Fear of talkingUNABLE TOsustaina touch of air asthmavengefuland mean spirited

Takingair for granteddisrespectingnatures naturalkingdomsof oxygen trying to speak out needingto breathesearching forthat one burst of fresh air fear of stepping intothe light of no return dough the beauty of the crystal light is tempingand welcomingthis journey of life not over yetas I fight to breathe

Lungslosing theabilityto sustainlife trying to overcome this thing called asthma dying to breathe like a fish out of water fins flapping hoping for a splash of water as do my lungs god let me breathe if only for one seconda splash of airwhispers of sounds wishingfor a miracle . Lungs collapsingfamily crying wonderingif the last drop of rain has falling

Downon this roseas her use her last drop of oxygenrose peddleswintering, as do her lungs dying to breathe from lake of air. this thing called asthma leaving these old Lungs breathlessas I take the last breath of airmother nature’skingdom of oxygen contaminatedwith pollution killing me softly black death living in the lungs of this old breathless body. Fighting to live if only for a short whileifI should die tonightgod take care of all that I leave behind show them the path of healing let not their heart sufferas I sleep in peace in your house glory

If or when I surrender to this thing called asthmaheavenly father wipe away their tears give them the know how to carry on as this thing called asthmaclaims another soul

Bodylay silent fighting to breathe. in a world of stillnessI ‘am a soldier victory is mine this thing call asthma release me in the arms of life, and at that moment my lungs were awaken to fresh air a whole new lifeif only for one more day . my faith in god gave me the will to fight my life aren’t finish yet drops of air filling my lungs giving up on life I’ll never do that im a survivor asthmais a silent killersometime we takesomething as simple as air for granted

Live your life like its golden

Tomorrowmakes no promisescherish the air you breathe the life you save just maybe your own

Breathless