Tea and cigarettes

Tea & cigarettes

She says she sees her future
in tea and cigarettes
as she thinks of a past
that she’d much rather forget

The smoke lingers forever
in the air and in her heart
remembering the painful end
and the regret-ridden start

Autumn leaves begin to fall
[and the world with it, it seemed]
as the cigarettes burn away –
and then, one by one, the dreams

She says she sees her future
in tea and cigarettes
as she wishes away her past
shrouded in silhouettes