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Jun 2015
Light up a cigarette
it's how we escape
in hope life gets better
until we leave this place.

Leaving of course, from a stray
is any one intending for you to stay?
It takes thirty seconds
to smoke part of your life away.

Some look in the mirror
now covered by grey.
They cough up a lung
with nothing left to say.

Everyone else will pass away
continuing to smoke everyday.
Maybe there was always a better way
yet, look who cared enough to stay.

The reason I smoke everyday
is because, I'm stuck here in a pray
hoping someone will come save the day
or i'll say goodbye, in my own patient way.

I don't like to smoke
I can honestly say...
Yet I still do it
Day by Day.
No one likes smoking right away
most of the time when they start it's for attention
enough time for people to notice.
some people really don't care. I don't think many people wanted to start in the first place.
instead, they're only looking for a way to escape
it's easy to quit when you start but,
how hard is it to just be there for them right away before it continues to get worse? I smoke, and this is what I can say.
otherwise, tell me why you really think people smoke today?
JD
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JD  27/M
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   Kelley A Vinal
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