INHALED DEATH


Taken for pleasure,
at leisure.

Setting a measure,
no pressure.

Inhaling sustenance
Exhaling life

The goal was high pleasure,
the warnings were clearly spelled
in letters to DIE YOUNG.

"Haha...a message for the young,
and I'm past young age..."
silly thoughts
until organs gave in
and lungs longed for oxygen.

Take in....now out!
Decades fade away
at exhalation
of ingest.

Take in...now out!
organs of a dying old
younger than
my entire youthfulness.

Take in...now out!
My youthful self
more fragile in shape
than the wrinkles of the old.

At every respiratory process
my life was zapped!

I'm dead-lost
in my consciousness
a total mirage of being to my reality,
and lost in my existence. 

Buried while breathing,
I buried myself alive.

For my inhaled breaths
add more death than life.
A complete reverse of man's
respiratory cycle,
I inhaled death.

🚭 SMOKERS ARE LIABLE TO DIE YOUNG! 🚭 

❌ ❌ ❌

© Callistus I. Okonkwor

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