Breathe, man! Breathe!

The blood is pounding, pounding in your ear
Truly astounding, it bangs so loud
Yet without, it does not show
It's iron will desires to make you bow.
Promising, daring, to break through
Sneering, threatening to show!

Your heart rebels, demands to leave
Demands to rest, to relieve heave
It pounds too, like the child begot\
Joins own blood to register revolt

Outside, the world in oblivious bliss
Inside, the idea seems ludicrous
The calm divide seems to bubble
Your pulse registers ineffable tremble
Sweat breaks out above the brow,
Inside your palms, the nose below.

The world bends and curves viciously
Periphery shrinks and bloats assiduously
The seas where never this violent before
Suddenly now, revolt wherefore?
Suddenly now, why this sweat
Why this reminder, to this demi-god of legions)
That Mortality takes unkindly to neglect

Then the solution, it doth seem silly
But the silliest things dawn most slowly
Thus it dawns, and with it light breaks
This dense, thick blanket you shake
When emotion overwhelms, through your pores
Through your every fibre seethes,
All you need to do, is just breathe.

And the world is back to linear normalcy
The blood flows downward, the limbs revive
Thankfully, the delay proves not too costly
And the life in you was never so alive

(But you to me this point must cede
You had forgotten the need to breathe)

~Breathe

Tsk tsk tsk... too much tension, mister Roger Federer :)