(Raise Your Voice) Light Up Mommy (a poem)

Raise Your Voice

Light Up Mommy

Written June 12th, 2011

*chk* *chk*

Firelight flicker

Malicious embers glow

Burning up the poison

A serpentine tongue of smoke

Rising from your pale deprived lips

Slithering between your dying teeth

Coating your sickly yellow tongue

And torturing your withered lungs

All I can do is watch

I'm your growing child

Your flesh and blood,

Developed within your womb

Once a part of you

Now I observe

As you slowly starve yourself of life

Once flushed with color

And smelling of youth and flowers

You've paled and yellowed

And on your breath the rotting reek of death

And that satanic snake

Twisting and writhing in the air

Reaches my nostrils

And squirms inside

Powerless to stop it, I choke

Gasping for clean air

But instead I am filled with more

Of this malevolent carcinogen

And I can sense its evil grin

As it rips and tears within

Blackening and murdering my screaming cells

Once so pink and full

Now crumble and shrivel to sickened ash

So light up, Mommy, light up

*chk* *chk*

Cling to your fatal addiction

And don't even consider

How you're slowly killing your baby girl

Your flesh and blood

           A young heart full of love