Chest expands the air flows in
Body feels the world begin
Exhale falls like evening rain
Breath returns without a chain
Life appears from silent gate
Never early never late
No possession in this gift
Only presence in its shift
Breath arrives in quiet grace
No one earns this sacred place
Every inhale born of trust
Every out-breath cleans the dust
Nothing owned yet nothing lost
Living asks for no exhaust
Breath remains beyond the bone—
Life is borrowed not alone