when you lit me
i felt like hope fulfilled
the sole purpose
to burn for you
to feel your mouth
sweet upon me
pulling dragging me
but i peeled away
less and less
until the end
and you got to the
substance of me
and when you had
dragged me
all the way down
and i filtered you out
toss me throw me
in the memory tray
like so many others
smoulder until i go out
and where you kissed
is all that's left
with shifting ashes.
you were that once
smoking me.
