How deep is too deep?

Friday, September 05, 2014

There is only so deep you can go

Before the air runs out

And the more you reach

The less breath you can take in

And must measure pleasure

With survival and whether it is wiser

To withdraw or die there in bliss

Our lives our circumscribed

By such limits, that place

From which me must leap

Or take a step back,

Reevaluating what it means

To go on after being pumped up

So much we do not often

Understand the consequences

Of coming or going,

But we ache to continue,

To come and come again

To breathe deep when there is

Nothing left to breathe

But our own expected breath

And yet, when all is said and done

Sometimes, that is enough.