To Live Is To Breathe

To live is to breathe,
To breathe is to live,
Take a moment, pause,
Let that sink in
Minutes count down,
They all pass us by,
We forget to live,
And then we all die
Every minute, every moment,
They are more precious than you know,
And yet we take them for granted,
And then they are gone
We are afraid to see,
Just what the future brings,
And in those moments,
We forget to breathe
We are stealing from ourselves,
Tomorrow and today,
We no longer live and breathe,
And all possibility fades
We waste time in the past,
And we forget to love,
We keep looking for more,
And so never have enough
To live is to breathe,
To breathe is to live,
Take a moment, pause,
Let that sink in

jlp March 14, 2009-Revised August 14, 2010