This Is Also Vapor

Dreams and mere breath and much talk—
It has to be said all this
Saying of this, this, and that

Makes up the most of what is
A person’s experience
Of a human existence.

The body’s systematic
Urges, hungers, and panics
Don’t fully exist unsaid,

Not for you, not for your kind.
It’s a bit of foolishness,
Then, to suggest it’s nothing

Much to talk, to be dreaming,
To be exhaling mere breath.