Kahan, I love your words...
I'm new to the world of words but isn't it great just to get it out!

Breathe we all must
Learn live explore the experience
And don't ever stop

hello! and welcome to this poetry site. it is very nice to meet you! thank you for sharing your refreshing philosophies with us :)

always, Cat (the Candlewitch)

It is amazing the power of popular music in the 20th century, and most of us over 35 will first relate to your poem from the famous Pink Floyd song: Breathe

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around and choose your own ground

For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

Run, rabbit, run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.

My generation ( I was 19 in 1970) know every note and nuance of that song. As a lyric, it also works as a poem, which is not so common. So it is hard for me to not see your poem in comparison. That sometimes just happens, there's very little new, only new ways we say it.

Your poem to me would be an excellent lyric for a song. It is direct, and does not use simile, metaphor, rhyme, or any of the standard tools that poetry has to give it meaning and reverence, or to have it create a poetic universe. It instructs us how to perceive life and live. As you grow as a poet you will find the beauty of the craft is going beyond the philosophical to the magic of words, which get electric charges by their uses, and the images that come from your imagination. Try to read as much poetry as you can, from all ages and lands. It will come, you have the sensibility of a poet!

Yes, the Electric Balloon Farm on 2nd ave that became the Filmore East. "There was revolution in the air" as Dylan put it in "Tangled up in Blue", I was living down in the village at the time.
Every generation looks back- the roaring 20's probably beat it all in terms of a generation gone party crazy. Dadaism. Surrealism. Then the beat generation.
These generations that are emerging today are the hope of the world. Now connected in ways we never could imagine, there is some hope a universal connection will finally start to influence politics and lifestyles will become more independent of prejudice, absolute authority and fascism. The 21st century belongs to you. It's good to look back at our thing, there was a lot very cool stuff...but now it is your turn- "Embrace this journey"!

All good feedback you've received.I would only add 'ware second person.
It is anathema to poets especially. We have, in terms of the GPI, 'Pirate Mentality'. We yam wot we yam, fight to the finach and don't take orders. The second person is always in grave danger of offering advice, orders and generally assumes a patronising attitude to the reader. Not to say it isn't good. Just don't fucking tell us what to do.