You are the one thing that matters

My contribution to Erased Land, the 2025 Blackout Poetry Project, The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.

You can see other erasures from the project here.

Source material: The Family Reunion, a play by T. S. Eliot.

conscious breathing
ordinary breathing
 
consider
How little I know
 
Only this –
You are   
 
the one thing that matters