Breathe

Ashes of yesterday’s cigarette
Smeared into the earth
Forgotten…
The inhale
The exhale
The tiny light aglow
Waiting just to die
Toxicity lingering on your lips
As you close the door behind you
Lungs cry out
In smoke filled cavities
Expansion met with resistance
The residue washed
from tar stained mouths
masking her lethal existence
Just one more puff
Just one more drag
Teaching us the power
Of the inhale
The exhale
We have forgotten how
…to just simply breathe….