By Lisa Huddleston
Breathe in and the machinery whirs to life
Inspiration and expiration too
Letters and syllables and words and stories
Notes and phrases and melodies and songs
Symbols of life and breath but not life itself
Evidence of life one life all life lived out
Inhaled and exhaled
Until as expected but not really all breath runs out
And only the symbols remain
A legacy not of breath but of
Stories and songs
