oxygen!

'I must breathe.
I must save myself.
first. always.'
put on the oxygen mask.
so you can smell yourself.
so you keep getting turned on
by those skins and masks.
yes, over and over again.
so you can be full of yourself.
so full that you could burst.
so that you forget the equation -
that you have oxygen
because something else
breathed it out.
for you.
so you can stay alive
until you realise
you can give up your breath
if you really want to.
because it is important.
as important to stop.
as it is to start. or stay.
there are other kinds
of warriors
if you care to look -
the silent ones
that rise and fall
without a hue and cry -
the earth, the trees,
the waters, the bees.
they wear nothing.
no armours.
to save themselves.
and so they feed us
their world.
our oxygen!