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Five Things

A Poem on Healing

By Chelsea MagwirePublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Five Things
Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash

5 Things you can see

4 Things you can touch

3 Things you can hear

2 Things you can smell

1 Thing you can taste

Deep breaths

Box breathing, in one-two-three-four

Hold, one-two-three-four

Out one-two-three-four

Repeat

Over and over

Until it works

Until the voices stop

Until you can see

Until everything just

Is

Again

sad poetrysocial commentaryperformance poetry

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