You’re my Marlboro Red in the dead of night

A single amber glow amid the choking blackness 

But oh how you will never understand 

the way your embers light up my soul

Scorching me black from inside out 

setting me ablaze with your crimson flame 

Lining my insides with the dark of your poison affections

Oh how it shines in the cover of night, but sure as the dawn will rise it burns down fast 

darkness lifts and our fingers unwind,

bodies peel,

lips draw back,

releasing    you     from   I          and       I       from     you 

 and the pale stroke of dawn washes away the dark of night

Carrying away our stolen affections, concealing it beneath the shadow of our moon 

Oh my Marlboro Red romance how tragically you died at the hand of our own carnivorous breath

As our lungs squeezed inward our time burned fast 

and our veiled promise of love fell to ashes,

           drifting,

 and spinning,

 lost along the wind

ambers die under the weight of our intensities

      smashed and  ground into the pavement,

            stamped out beneath the foot of the morning sun

But tell me this my nicotine lover,

     When darkness falls will the matches set us ablaze once more?