Breathe

This is the air I breathe;

This unholy air

This is what I breathe daily

This is the air I breathe;

This makes me despondent

This keeps me from you

Your Holy presence living in me.

Your presence is there

when I need it.

When all else is lost,

You are there

To guide us and to teach us.

This is my daily bread;

This cruel treatment:

the kicks and taunts

the beatings, punches, slaps...

This is my bread.

This is my daily bread;

You keep me alive

through the miseries in my life.

You helped me through my troubles:

You were there,

though others had long left

Your very word spoken to me.

You told me not to worry

to lean on you: depend on you

when all else was gone.

And I, I'm desperate for you;

Desperate for guidance

Yearning, searching,

for you.

And I, I'm lost without you.

I'm nothing without you.

Without you there is nothing.

Because you gave my life back

And I am forever grateful

to you.

Inspired by the music video Breathe by Marie Barnett

A/N: I just wrote this at the spur of the moment. No flames, please.