Daily missive for Wednesday the 23rd of June

‘Breathe’

Such a simple thing

Trying to stop is not easy

Unless you are determined

Or have an awful affliction

Not many are allergic to oxygen

Perhaps they are to the twenty-first century

Many people seem to be

It must be a communicable pathogen

Not just word of mouth

Social networks can be extremely anti-social

Conspiracy theorists

Can have a field day

Confirmation bias

Would assume religious proportions

Drowning is a really hard way to die

The reflex to breathe induces panic

Nobody chooses

To be breathless

There is a feeling of inevitability

About decline gathering pace

Outcomes reconfiguring

In momentum

When ‘breathe’ becomes

More a sentence than a word

How foolish is a world

Without a fresh air-lock

That is something more

Than an echo-chamber

For the privileged few

To rage about the toxicity

Of modern life

When so many cling to it

Barely breathing

Even when it is what they want

Perhaps only love

Should take your breath away

There would be a queue

For its administration as a lifeline

Vaccine.