Smoking is injurious to health
Was what the packet said
I took it up like a curious child and then I read,

Grotesque images depicting deformities didn't bother me,
Should have seen it then, and should have turned around and fleed.

I took one up, smoked it with the lighter of greed and indulgence
But since that day my life has been everything but effulgent

Unsanctimonius and insane as it may seem,
Now the hope of normalcy seems like a dream.

I have tried to...