tobacco
Posted: June 2nd, 2011, 4:12 pm
You love my sweet tobacco taste, the burn
you pull from underneath my ashen waste—
you’ve loved the breath I’ve warmed for you, embraced
the heat I’ve placed in you— and now you yearn
for more of me and likewise now I turn
for more of you— and all of this is based
on something cool, carcinogenic, laced
with light that lingers longingly. You’ll learn
I’m not afraid to know you love me.
And if for nothing else, I’ll love you too
because you weren’t afraid of loving me.
And though the atmosphere grows stale with too,
too many trails of blue and burnt and me,
a sweet old stench will say I love you too.
you pull from underneath my ashen waste—
you’ve loved the breath I’ve warmed for you, embraced
the heat I’ve placed in you— and now you yearn
for more of me and likewise now I turn
for more of you— and all of this is based
on something cool, carcinogenic, laced
with light that lingers longingly. You’ll learn
I’m not afraid to know you love me.
And if for nothing else, I’ll love you too
because you weren’t afraid of loving me.
And though the atmosphere grows stale with too,
too many trails of blue and burnt and me,
a sweet old stench will say I love you too.