Swirling smoke all around me

Obscuring my vision.

My eyes search the darkness

Looking for you.

Your name dances on my tongue

Hoping to be heard.

My hands grasp at thin air

Finding nothing....

Like water swirling deep

Not to the internal

Out through the breath it chokes

Meanders from hole to space

Permeating it’s fragrant spice

Spreads the fog of burial ash

Of life long renewed...

Swirling smoke rises,

marking obliteration

and seeding new life...

Swirling smoke

Rising flames

Ferocious wind

That builds up inside me

Started as a candle

Slowly getting hotter

Glass holder shattered

Smoke rose above

Wind picked up

The anger inside has broken free

Running wild

Nothing can contain it

The flames burn anything in its path

The wind can blow over skyscrapers

Smoke suffocates anyone caught inside

The candle once so small

Now erupted into flames

There...

Swirling smoke spills like rising waters from my bedrock lips,

It hisses in the air like smoke drawn dragons,

Licking and slithering in my direction,

They flicker their fire hot tongues at me,

Begging to consume me once again.

The cigar in my fingers feels heavy,

Leadened with too many half-willed promises,

I know I should snuff it out,

That wildfire on the end that promises to ravage all tha...

Swirling smoke

Rising from the cigarette that rests between your long fingers.

Your nails painted a dark, deep red.

I notice they match your lips.

I am mesmerized.

I unabashedly stare at you.

Exhaling your day into the night sky.

Swirling smoke carrying with it your faults.

You look troubled and afraid.

But you conceal that well through a labored grin.

You wonder if anyone can see it.

I ...

Swirling smoke rises,

Drifting up through the pine trees,

Lost in wilderness....

Swirling smoke.

It engulfed my lungs, became my body.

Everyday is hell.

Flesh and bone turn to plastic.

Time becomes a shell.

...

When the swirling smoke around me cleared I could finally see my reflection in water. Something about me was different, the thing that made me who I was was gone, the person that shaped my life had vanished with out even a word of good bye. Now I had to be the person that I never thought I could be, but now I didn’t have a choice. My life is forever different. I have made it this far, and now is n...

A sky that stays bright and blue turns dark. Its hard to imagine something so beautiful vanish. We need away to preserve the beauty. Color fades and warm turns to cold. I want comfort. Whether i stand or sit i have access to rolled up pieces of earth to put to my lips like chap stick. I take in the burning earth as if it would breath new life into me. After a few deep inhales i float. My boat is b...