Broken Souls and Cigarettes
Even if all the contents
Confined within
The cage of one's soul
Were to spill
Could we understand them?
Such a question
In such a queer situation
Was presented to me
When the sky had
Gifted the sun it's
Long awaited adieu
Leaving bitter shades of grey
To take it's place
Before the crescent moon
As a girl
Immobile from the waist up
Mobilized her only
Mobile half
To puff the silver clouds
Of suffocating ash
Tipping off the illuminated
Stench of a cigarette
Entrapping them both as
Her father laboring away
Preparing the car
For her leisure
Now I do not claim
To know the reasons one
Wish to die
Nor do I know the reasons
One would cling to life
Some people
Would rather burn
At their own hand
Than the Hand of God
Gifting them
Slow and painful
Decrepitation
And as a simple bystander
I will never know
The reasons one
Would enjoy to do
Any of that either