BREATHE

I'm walking in a body
Two stone lighter
I tell you everything around me
Is burning brighter
Brighter
The sun is shining through the trees
I'm painting a picture
I want you to see
Nobody talks about the fighter
Who takes a knee
Nobody wants to be
What nobody wants to see
The branches above me
Are like black calligraphy
Our children's young feet
Are kicking up the leaves
Kicking up the leaves
I remind myself
To Breathe
I remind myself
To Breathe
Reykjavik grey concrete
Red flags and turning cheek
Living in a dissonance
Between what you want to be feeling
And what you're really feeling
And what you're really feeling
Neuropathy and Daedalus
Therapy and litmus tests
Listlessness and medical trials
Your father's silence was a cry
To be saved from the loneliness
You've inherited the same distress
Between what you want to be feeling
And what you're really feeling
And what you're really feeling
Loneliness is your north star
Hiding in your family car
No one really asks how you are
You look up at the sky
Try to make yourself feel small