Just breathe

Slowly

Deliberately

In

out

In

Out

Breathe as if it were your very first breath

Everyday

Just breathe not as if it were your last

Not as if you were running a race

Breathe

Feel your lungs fill with air

And then

Slowly

carefully

Release

Expel

Discharge

In

Out

In and

Out

Just breathe

Don’t let all that would pull you in drag you down

To its own depths

Rather raise all that could be up with you

And breathe

Slowly carefully

Mind only the minutes

Do not fret for the seconds and the hours

Let this day be your day

Your first

Not your last

Do not press in

Or lash out

Just breathe in

And then out

Accept the quiet in the noise

In amongst the shouted splattered spoken traffic

In

And out

And a second becomes a minute

And minute an hour

And an hour a day

In which you are lost to no one

But yourself

Just breathe

Put all of the plates down

The musts the should’s the maybes

The got to’s and also rans

And simply be

Breathe

Just breathe

Don’t flail thrash or drown

Just float on your back

And breathe

In and out

Breathe

 

Apply once a day evenly throughout until all signs of panic or of fear have gone away.