Every Breath Counts — A Poem on COPD Awareness

Each breath comes without a thought
A gift so simple and freely brought
Now air feels heavy and slow to find
A weight that presses on the mind

The chest that rose with ease before
Now struggles for each more breath
A cough lingers in chest day by day
Gains quiet strength along the way

The stairs seem higher than they are
Each step a battle and each breath a scar
The lungs, once wide like blue skies
Now shrink in size beneath bonny chest

Each weak soul that fights this fight
There burns a spark, enduring light
Through oxygen tube, sleepless nights
Still glows the will to claim their rights

The right to breathe, to walk, to live
To find the joy that life can offer
For COPD may slow the pace
But not the courage on each face

Every breath silently remind us all
To heed the cough, to break the wall
To quit the smoke, to care, to share
To guard the lungs beyond repair

Our life is measured not in years
But in each breath that clears our fears

So take a breath that is deep and free
And honor those with COPD sings

-       Indrajeet

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