To Those Who Love Me

Brown, yucky and tasteless Toxic monsters All tightly bundled Into a thin roll. That's me! Slim and handy As I squeeze in between Your fingers. Burning my tail, I turn into ashes and smoke Surging my way Through your mouth To reach your lungs Blocking arteries and veins on my way. I hypnotize your cells And they go dividing and dividing Turning your lungs Into a cancerous demon. My dear children Nicotine and tobacco-tar Slowly eating you up, Immersing you in their toxic bliss. And you still enjoy me! A tap on my back Flicking off the ashes As you smoke I gleefully enter through the tiny hairs in The tiny nostrils of Your tiny little kids B'cos blocking arteries Is what I do Whether its you or People around you What we share Happens to be parasitism. You burn me And I burn your life. I am burnt out now Only the butt remains. Throw me before I burn you. And here you go Lighting another me I guess perhaps, I am dearer Than your family and your life. But mind the spark in the butt It's the spark of your life Breathing and flickering now, But........................... As I come to you again I carry an expiry date Certainly not mine.