my teacher told me that we do not breathe in oxygen, we breathe in air that happens to contain it. when i call you the air that i breathe you think you are what sustains me, you are so much more than oxygen. when you become toxic my lungs are your filter and it works. it is temporary

did you forget that i am fire, that i exist for a reason other than to keep you warm. i can burn and i can destroy but you sacrifice my freedom for your comfort, your fingers of smoke i can never seem to catch wrap themselves around my neck. i cannot filter you when you contain me, when you suffocate me, when you extinguish me. i will not go out i burn brighter and stronger my flame becomes a forest fire, you pull back when it reaches you. once you asked why i am fire and i told you it is a defence

you dont understand how i can burn what keeps me alive, how i can burn you. you dont undersand that air is never pure, that you are not sustainable, that i started to die out the day i started to breathe you in