Strike Gently

You think nicotine is addictive

Unless you kiss lips that taste vaguely of spearmint

And you realize the most dangerous drug of all

Is holding somebody after losing them and then losing them again..

You think cannabis lifts you off the dirt you've been creating for yourself

Commit all those seven deadly sins

And see nothing helps

Dig a bigger grave in your dirt before going up high

For you are about to fall

Your words that bite skin

Seem so ordinary to me

If I could rearrange them, I'd propose the world with affection

That you never gave to anyone

Despair, strike me gently every night

Every minute when I start to hear the roaring void

Louder than you, it unsettles the calm

And I lose my breath

With myself