NEIL SLEVIN - BREATHE (I REMEMBER)

Neil Slevin is a 27-year-old writer from the West of Ireland. An English teacher, in 2016 he completed an MA in Writing at NUI Galway and he is now pursuing a writing-based career. 
 Neil’s poetry has been published by The Galway Review and Boyne Berries, as well as numerous international journals, including Scarlet Leaf Review and Artificium: The Journal. His flash fiction appeared in The Incubator. 
He co-edits Dodging The Rain.
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                       Breathe (I Remember)


How our silence swelled
into a bubble I could’ve
stayed forever in as
the noise of life
went on outside,
everything lost
in your glow,
 
as the sense of
what you knew but
didn’t realise yet
set you ablaze
and I basked in the
warmth you gave away,
joyous just to be
 
and breathe,
only a little scared
I might do something
to disturb all the bits
and pieces of universe
that had conspired
to make 'us';
 
how if I could choose
from all the moments
I’ve lived to this,
I would pick that 
​to live again,
die happily at
its end.
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