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Right In Front of My Eyes

Every time you light a cigarette All you want to do is forget Forget the past and the future For years you've smoked away You smoked and smoked and never quit Suicide is that your thought? Never thought once about your children Whom lie there forever sleeping Out there in the bitter cold Without any coats on to keep them warm? So what you've decided Is to end it all right now, You kept asking me if it's alright to And my answer is always NO NO it isn't alright to just decide to commit suicide Too short of a life we have to live And here you go and make it even shorter By killing yourself you're killing a part of us too Without realizing it you're gone Before we can even save you To watch you light a cigarette And watch you smoke it Would be to watch you slowly die Right In Front Of My Eyes

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 8/1/2019 9:33:00 PM
Ellie, welcome to Poetry Soup. You have written what almost every child of a smoker or a couple of smoker thinks. We used to call cigarettes "cancer sticks" for a good reason. Good poem. Poignant.
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