Nº 27

An ash falls down
Still burning bright
As my thick exhale
Floats into the night

This searin red ember
From my finger's flick
Is burning away
Like the flames that lick

The life from me
Breath by breath
A life that's meant
For certain death

A certain end
To life's short climb
Plumetting, falling
At any time

I see the ash
Snap to black
Gone in an instant
And not coming back

Three more fall
Down by my feet
Fate again
Will thrice repeat

But as for now
They're the freckles of Earth
The same sanguine spots
I've had since birth

And just like me
The world will die
As I exhale my smoke
Into the sky

So I light up again
Ciggerette in my lips
Feet on the ground, head in the sky
Loving the living as time quickly unzips