Open Air (3 May 2006)

for d.

I suffocated for twenty years, breathing
a thick, soupy kind of air
before You came along.
I didn’t realize what I was missing
until I broke through
into open air
and took my first gasp of it.
Thank God
It is a Miracle.
It’s as if I have been drowning
and You pulled me from the water,
pressed your lips to mine
and told me to breathe.
And I do.
I breathe deeply.