Presence (a poem)

I am grateful for this breath. 

this breath

this breath I breathe 

for the last time

and this breath

will never come again

I get to breathe this breath

from beginning to end

from end to beginning

of a new breath

one long inhale,

or short

or shaky,

one full exhale 

I am grateful for this breath

I breathe. 

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