Lighting Up
Smokers light up for various reasons,
Stress, anxiety, savoring a meal or
seasons,
Yet, rarely do they think of the harm
it creates in their bodies, hacking coughs
that require more than hot toddies,
Cigarette smoke and tobacco breeds cancer,
The relaxation it brings can never qualify
for a plausible answer,
Yoga and meditation may have the same effect,
the difference is, they don't send people to
quicker deaths.......
Lighting up rarely brings joy in the end,
especially if you have to watch a body
ridden with cancer at its last moments
before death.
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