Curved Air

I wrote this a few years ago but it's still one of my favorite things I have ever written

I wish that I were a cigarette

Tucked in the back pocket of your jeans

Just so I could kiss your lips one last time before

You’d crush me and leave me on the sidewalk

For other people to walk over me

 

Maybe I wish I were the smoke

Leaving your lips

Never to return to you again

 

But I think my real wish is for you

To never smoke that cigarette

So that I don’t have to

Die because of

You