Breathed - (poetry monthly)

I'm posting this today for Steve, who passed away a week last Friday. It was badly recorded in a friend's son's bedroom a couple of years ago after Steve gave me a few chords and the words of the song he had been playing around with on and off for some time but getting nowhere with, I came up with this, and when I gave it to him he said it was nothing like what he had in mind, but was thrilled with it anyway. Trouble was, I think it may have knocked his own inspiration out of the window coz he never did finish his own version of the song. His funeral is today. 

RIP dear friend x

https://youtu.be/WebqlitPsso

Breathed - with words by Stephen Ward - (Mango the Chutneyman) 

When breathing gets difficult 

and sleeping impossible

you know it's time for you to get back on the dirt track

to where you lost your mind

in the gaze of her eyes

in her fragile smile and get in with your life

before you fade and are lost forever

you'd better pull yourself together

and get on with your life



Thought I saw you steal a glance

then look away again 

Thought I heard you whisper we could be more than friends

Didn't you reach inside of me

and take my breath away

or has my imagination let me down again?



Breathe life into me

You breathed life into me

You breathed life into me -

You came to me 

and you breathed... 



Now I'm missing you every day

they tell me life goes on

I'm a little boat who's lost his way - just drifting along

No I won't curl up and die

May even try to smile

Though there's sadness behind my smile

I was breathless for a while



But you breathed life into me

You breathed life into me

You breathed life into me

You came to me

and you breathed



Won't you come back 

and breathe

again