Respiration

Breathe in all that's so abhorrent

To the life I lived before

Exhale all my troubled torment

All these signs I can't ignore

Helpless now, I'm suffocating

There's no air, I cannot breathe

Breaking down, asphyxiating

Choking on the love I need

Cling to life, I gasp and stutter

Struggling for some kind of peace

Fell behind, left in the gutter

I tread on with cough and wheeze

Helpless now, my heart is failing

Breathlessness won't go away

Falling down, my life is fading

Respiration's gone to waste.