"Let Me Breathe" A Poem by V.G. Grace

Let me breathe within a valley of kindness.
 

Let me breathe amongst a people full of love.

Let me breathe where the air is sweet
 

like honey;
 

where pain’s forgotten history
 

and humanity is humanity’s beloved.

 

Let me breathe 

surrounded by an eternal garden,
 

planted within untroubled soil.

 

Let me breathe the perfume of tranquility,
 

instead of old civilization’s 

old sweat and turmoil.

 

The promise of my hopes
 

are beckoning;
 

as wide and never-ending as the sea.

 

‘Till then, I breathe beneath my burdens;
 

not quite prisoner,
 

not quite free.