Breathe
Breathing
Reflection & Context
This spoken-word piece explores the inner landscape of grief, depression, and spiritual searching, focusing on the fragile question of what it means to keep breathing when the heart is exhausted. It captures the oscillation between despair and hope, between the desire for rest and the quiet insistence of life that continues to pulse beneath the pain.
Through the language of music, rhythm, and breath, the poem reflects how faith, prayer, and small daily victories become anchors during seasons of emotional darkness. The repetition of ordinary acts—waking, eating, praying, moving, listening—reveals how healing often begins not with dramatic change, but with the courage to take one more breath and one more step.
At its core, this piece is about spiritual resilience: the slow rediscovery that life is still worth inhabiting, that love is still present, and that God meets the soul not only in strength, but in weakness, confusion, and the simple act of staying. It affirms that breathing itself can become an act of faith, and that survival is already a form of hope.
Reflection Prompt
When have you experienced a season where simply getting through the day felt like an act of courage?
What “small victories” in your life—rest, prayer, movement, connection, breath—remind you that light is still reaching you, even when your heart feels heavy?
Original Performance
This piece was originally performed as part of the Lips & Poetry series, where spoken word meets lived experience. Watch the original recording below to hear the rhythm, breath, and emotion that first carried these words.