Smoke Still Lingers

Smoke Still Lingers
 
The smoke from my cigarette still lingers
Leaving nicotine stains on my fingers
 
Feel that I’m wrapped in heavy chains
In a place where melancholy always remains
 
I’m drowning in endless pools of lies and deceit
Have become a victim to my own self-defeat
 
Once I truly tempted death
Life can often become such a mess
 
One can get lost on life’s many roads
Lost and alone outside in the cold
 
I want to walk in the bright city lights
Finally welcome the coming of the night
 
Want to spread my wings and fly
Hope that I haven’t lost the will to try
 
May the Lord come and save my very soul
Before these feelings have taken their toll
 
I place all of my pain in Jesus hands
Lord over all of sky and all of land

Come to me in the quiet still of the night
Oh timeless, sacred bearer of the holy light
 
Can’t begin to count all of the tears I’ve cried
Won’t you come; when I need you by my side?
 
I don’t want to have to continually lose
I want to have the freedom to choose
 
Pearls of wisdom simply cast aside
It seems only my time that I bide
 
Wish the north wind would blow away all of the debris
God unlock these burdensome shackles and set me free
 
 
 
By Gary Edward Allen 2017