Sitting, dying, waiting Casually ticking my eyes back and forth At doctors and nurses rushing Trying to save one more life Just trying to make it to the end of their shift When I saw you walk out the elevator The look on your face told me you could use a lift Of spirit, of body and mind And that's when you took out that pack of Parliaments
"You can use a cigarette," You said through gritted teeth I looked, smiled, obliged the notion "How'd you know?" As I pulled one from the pack "This is a hospital, man, everyone here can use a smoke."" As more doctors and nurses speedily scurried along Scattering jitters Bouncing them off the walls Throughout the white washed waiting area
We looked at each other, smiled Popped the cigarettes in our mouths Lit up And no one said a word As the smoke drifted, floated and danced Above the sick and dying