Keep Going

It’s over now. You can not breathe.

Salty tears moisten your sleeve. 

The inner burning makes you heave.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Suffocated by hurt and heat.

Oceans of sweat, war gun heartbeat.

Limp shoulders pinned against the sheets.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Lungs constricted by the dawn crush.

Mind of jelly, limbs turned to mush.

Brain detonating in the hush.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

It was not you. It is not you.

Stop turning red flags into blue.

Hijack the lies, embrace the true.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

And take my word, this is no end.

Please call your family. Text a friend. 

I swear, I swear that you will mend.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.