escape our bodies with our long winded breath

with my thumb and forefinger i unmindfully strike the flint, pulling the simple intoxicant through my broken smile and feeling it cascade through my lungs, and then i simply let it go. the same product out as the same product in. i watch the wraith of carbon monoxide and arsenic escape my cracked lips and close my eyes to envision a different place. a different dialogue of circumstance where we both could calm down the heart beats and express the thoughts and dreams that are both running rampant through our encapsulated minds. we burn like a cigarette, just some shallow moments that then escape our bodies with our long winded breathing. we are the smoke, trapped for a moment and then let free into the great, open, star-filled skies.