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You are like a cigarette..

You are like a cigarette burning in my lungs with a speed of paper turning to raven ash when lighted up,

 

You flick you lighter, within your fingers, within your lips lies the taste of my blood

 

This road that we took, this love turned out be threaded together in such a way, that we could never unravel it

 

You puff out my love like the swirls of smoke disappearing in the thin air; I choke on the hardened state of your words like tar

 

This road isn’t being paved, it’s being dug unevenly from every breathing space, and the smoke is filling up in my lungs the way your ashtray is with cig butts

 

Overflowing, like the course of this relationship

 

Breathe in my lungs something other than acidic bruises, won’t you neutralize it?

 

Won’t you even stop and look back to all the things that we had, that we lost in the fire,

 

Look at my burned body and tell me you regret it, look at my cancer filled mouth infected by your diseased words and tell me you never meant to light my lungs on fire

 

Tell me, fuck tell me, you never meant to steal my voice, and abandon my love, choking me from inside,

 

My body giving up, lungs collapsing in the harsh winter night underneath the starless sky, the moon lost beyond the clouds, no savior

 

You are like Lucifer, I never understood the transition, and I could never breathe in the courage inside of my lungs opposing your vacant soul

 

You are like a cigarette but even at our end you’ll cant burn me out, I’ll be an more than this, I’ll be IV, trying to survive even when my body is more ash than blood

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