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KV Srikanth
Poems
Jun 2022
SMOKING
Tobacco crafted together
Rolled up in a white piece of paper
One end dangling between the lips
Other end waiting to get lit
Nicotine rich leaves
Dried up and fermented
For smoking or chewing
Packaged for marketing
Burning the tobacco
Ingesting the smoke
Ciggerate as a tool
Fool or Cool upto you
Perceived as a pleasure
Suffering from peer pressure
Looking fleek a measure
Addictions founder member
Risk and rebel
Not concerned about Survival
Dismissive of approval
Most factors mental
Trying to monitor
Through force or power
Always does backfire
Appears to empower
Quitting a process
Hard to digest
Body craves as time lapses
Target dates set in process
Makes time go faster
Is a friend to a loner
Finds company in the smoker
They compliment each other
Seen as a misfit
Or the ultimate fit
Approved disapproved habit
Every era gives it a certificate of merit
Movie star letting out smoke
Triggers the wanting in you
Imitation best form of flattery
The hero achieves it rather easily
Rolling it in his mouth
Sending smoke rings out
Talking with the ciggerate dangling
Lighting it is almost heaven
Be there do that
Doesn't make you him
Realising it is too late
Lips holding the stick a preface
The first is the toughest
Next comes the secrecy
Not for too long
Agony loses out to fantasy
Vapours on the twin tracks
Guilt and pleasure
Parralal to each other
Guilt replaced by fear
Pleasure by torture
Light it and inhale it
Exhale it and smoke it
Forget about it
Till the next time you light it
Easy come never goes
Words like willpower deeply sowed
Growth replaced by fire
Six feet under
Easiest way out
Make a joke
Destiny the locker for moral bankruptcy
Imagination starts flowing freely
Smoking and dying
Are forgivable in a sense
You know you're the pits
When everyone around you have quit
Dying a better option
An example for future generations
The biggest sucker of the lot Nicotine finds you its easiest mark
When the marketing slogan
Warns you of death
Speaks for the product
Still beats their sales target
Laughable not that irony
Willpower to stay of the grave
Use it for better purposes
Than to negate a negative effect
Many Bestsellers written
How not to be the Marlboro man
Be the Marlboro man
Marlboro immortal not the man
No one is immortal
Tells us our brain
I'll quit at the right time
Shows everything wrong with time
The dreaded condition
I won't be the victim
Every smokers slogan
Decade long battle like the Trojans
Married to it
Withdrawal the Alimony
Too much to pay rather stay married
Don't worry not too long your stay
Born smoked died
Could never put it away
All that needed was an Ashtray
Go ahead make your day
Written by
KV Srikanth
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