through the gray haze
the blue smoke
through the crying smiles I watch
you toke
your glass cage breaking
you choke and laugh
then madness overtakes me

I fly to you above the ashes
above the steam from coffee
now stale
I rush for blood
I rush to kill you
their sadness doesn’t phase me

I knock you down
we both keep falling
you tossed and turned but now
you’re dead
now there’s no one left to save me

and so it all must end.

© Crystal S. McDonald.