There is too much air in my chest
And not enough in my lungs
I stumble, reset, refocus
There are faces in the dark
With wisps of smoke for hands
That reach for me
My mouth opens to scream
And scream and scream but
No one hears a thing
I stumble to find the switch
For light that floods the room
Stumble, reset, refocus
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great write!
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Thank you!
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this is wicked and powerful and i love it
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A sincerely suffocating, yet excellent write! Learning to breathe should be a skill taught in schools when we are very young!
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Thank you Diana! Ha yes precisely 🙂
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KaylaAnn…a question…how did you do to copyright your work through wordpress? Please, I need to copyright my writings since I made a 360 change to my blog page and now I want to copyright or protect my saga story writing….I would greatly appreciate your help
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Hey J.M., so I’m attaching a link and it will take you to one of my blog posts with a template for the copyright that I use. I have to attach it to each individual post
https://kaylaannauthor.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/blogging-tip-be-cautious-online/
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you are the WOMAN!!!!! Thank you Ms. Success!!
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Ha thank you for the compliment! 🙂 good luck in your writings!
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the same!
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This is a very scary experience that you’ve written quite excellently, KaylaAnn. I experienced it once, and I was so afraid, I thought I was going to die.
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Thank you MissM. Unfortunately I experience varying degrees of severe parainsomnia regularly and I find the best way to fight it is to write about it. They are definitely terrifying.
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Nicely written.
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Thank you!
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So sorry you go through this 😢 Well written description.
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Thank you Walt! At least I have something to inspire my poetry ha
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Fabulous poetry, Kayla. Brava!
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Thank you Eugenia!!!
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