Breath

Inhale, exhale, in, out.

 Take deep and refreshing breaths, feel the rhythm of your heart and match it, excluding everything else. Just feel your heart beating, keeping time, and listen to the sound of air rushing past your lips.

 Inhale, exhale, in, out.

 Let the world slip, then fall away as you close your eyes and let the darkness take you. In that darkness, feel the throbbing of your heart, a dark red pulse in your vision, a beating drum in your mind. You can feel the air, a luminescence streaking across the darkness, ocean waves flowing through your mind.

 Inhale, exhale, in, out.

There is no pain. All of your suffering left with the world. The ocean tide fills your mind, bringing peace as the drum beat pulls you along the shoreline. Slow and steady, the drum keeps the rhythm as you drift, sleep settling in on your weary mind like frost on the ground.

Inhale, exhale, in, out.

Dream, let your mind and heart mingle and fill the darkness with color and light. Act out your fantasies and live the life you want, with all the comforts and joys that they entail. Let this world be your reality for a time, and the world you left behind be nothing more than a bad dream.