Breath It takes difficulty breathing Difficulty speaking To feel the need The power of speech And the desire Grows to be inspired To breathe in air And put down words That can be turned back Into breath Through speech. It takes trouble to feel the power Of speech As a former of the world To lose that inhibition – a stutter and a hiccough All in one word One thought that – Poetry Any poetic writing Is a struggle to bring The word Back to speech To structured breath To plan Wrought instead of simply expelled Like a spoken breath In vocal virtuosity. Words have the power to lead us to action To activities that drop us into contingency From out of the realm of what can be. I am wary of that power Over myself Words have And can give To me Or some other Over me.