Black Tar Addiction

As the beating sun mistakenly masks a pale city red Cigarettes burn silhouettes into the sidewalk of another beating heart Beautiful mistakes fade behind waves of forgiveness From children telling breezy seasons to mask unsuspecting eyes Inside a mother’s breathing belly, infants painfully scream deadly poison And drying numbness fills the air as intimate closeness fades Living through winters fallen ice cycles breaking apart faith Leaves frail hope pushing beyond a common bond of love And death from life emerges suffocating air within the lungs Releasing pain smothered in addiction of black tar in your heart