The Whiskey Taster’s Flavor Guide

Smoke

Today is one of the days I feel like smoke. 
Choking myself.... bottling every feeling, 
not allowing myself to breathe. 
Covering everything with white ashes, 
turning things monotonous...black and white. 

I am not kerosene yet. 

I am not kerosene yet...it never corrodes,
 it forms impenetrable layers…
not allowing a chance for reversal. 
Not letting down a breathe,
excluding from every other thing... 

I am not kerosene. Yet. 

I am not even wrapped in a warm blanket. 
I am cold. 

I'm cold.
Sitting in smoking temperatures, I am cold. 
Frozen. Numb. Insensitive. 

Not wrapped in a warm blanket, I sit cold.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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