How Many Years Has It Been Now?

So right you are.
When you say to me,
I don't know you.

How many years has it been now?

Everything you do,
Competes with the wind.
And I am not looking,
To begin questioning a habit...
I should not let begin.
This should have ended,
The moment it began!

So right you are.
When you say to me,
I don't know you.

How many years has it been now?

I wish you had been a cigarette...
And said that when I became first introduced.
I wouldn't be smoking now.
And of course,
I would not have had anything to do with you.

Neither one of you would have existed...
To get me to believe,
There was something in it for me...
Other than a habit that addicts I can no longer explain!

How many years has it been now?

'Too many! '

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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