Half the oxygen you just breathed didn’t come from a tree.
It came from the ocean. From phytoplankton – organisms too small to see, doing more work than any forest on Earth.
‘every breath begins in water none of us see – lungs of blue silence’
You’ve never touched the thing that made your last breath possible.
UNSEEN
sunlit water, still
nothing moves that you can see,
yet everything does
BREATH
half of every breath
rises from a place too small
for us to notice
DEBT
I breathe without thanks
to a world I cannot see
today, I remember