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My lungs constrict again

And my back begins to hurt

As I desperately try to force

Air into my damaged lungs

I know smoke is near

I smell the stench of cigarettes

And it hurts me

I watch you raise that horror to your lips

Watch you continue

And this hurts me more

To see someone I call a friend

Embrace what causes my hell

Every night that I can't sleep

Every breath I fight to take

Everytime I fear it is my last

I'll see you sucking back

You embrace my foe

But why?

You were my friend

I asked nothing of you

Why turn to the captor

That holds me jailed in pain

Then mocks me with its victory

My lungs and the pain they suffer

We never quite so bad

As when I learned you had no trouble helping it

So I sit truly alone

Waging an everlasting battle with myself

To gain that next fragile breath

And forgive something you will never understand