• night sky up far above
    mocking like a thousand birds in flight
    screaming their defiance
    like his heart

    tilt his head up
    lift to face-
    end lit up like fireflies
    drifting out of town

    breathe in slowly
    draw breath of life death into lungs
    burning like his eyes at night as he lay
    trying to sleep listening to screams

    slowly let breath out
    And watch
    little wisps of soul
    ghosts of another life

    stars shake
    laughing
    mocking
    free

    another puff of life death
    and he knows it's slowly killing him
    and he knows he shouldn't do it
    but hell if this town gets him first.