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a singular breath

March 5, 2023
By EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."
-The Good Place


we all breathe don’t we?

as a collective

we could take in air

and let it out at the same time,

and we would pretend we were just one singular being

let our lungs connect

like a system of wires

or a forest of tall redwoods.


The author's comments:

Inspired by a TED Talk I had seen, I love the imagery and comparison of the lungs to other things, such as wires or forests. Both two very different concepts of technology and nature, they also share their own similarities. It’s very poetic.


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