just. remember.
there is only one air.
no here, nor there
when it comes to our breath
in december it catches our chest
in may, it might pass without notice
the first, and the last
the sick heave it fast
the grass breathes incredibly slow
just so
7 seas, 7 lands
we know, but our hands
couldn't carve up the skies
or the wind that's inside
it's all the same breath
cuz there's only one air
neither here, nor there
since hashem swept the face
of the waters with spirit
on the darkness and cleared it
y'hi or, va'yi'hi
sit and breath
fly or scream
in your lungs it's the same
so much so, to keep separate
we must cover our face
there's so much me inside you
that pandemics have spread
hopped seas like they're nothing
over land, as in dreams, late in bed
like sheep jumping
how connected could we be
through the air that we breath
a whole world's gotten sick
the fastest movers slowed their pace
mighty empires in their tracks
like frozen dragonflies in sap
we rend our clothing and remember
weep and wail at the truth
that every wisp of air inside of me will one day be in you
but, too,
that means
that every wisp of air inside of me will one day be in you
the same that god commanded water with to split its blue in two
and 'cross that sky and 'cross that ocean
there's a mama peek-a-boo
there's a lover making swoon
there's a breath across the soup inside a spoon to leave it cool
there's a dove-bird-momma cooing as her first one finds its swoosh in its maiden past the coop
and the wind under her wings is the same inside of you
and the words hop off my tongue on the same inside of me
and every single human being needs to open every second
to keep walking on this planet, that's a hell of a connection
we're not reliant on the wireless, don't believe it's just a screen
that on this shabbes eve draws chords between the soul inside of me
and the one inside of you
the truth's 'kadosh, kadosh, kadosh'
will match to each one of our pulse
and the lungs that stretch and hold
all the clear and tasteless ocean
that we cannot live without
have the same breath,
in and out,
since the first one,
until now