Toxic Romance

Lips pursed around the cork
A familiar kiss
She inhaled
or rather
She let it inhale her
Caress her
She let the clouds
Seethe through her roots 
Capture her
Make her a slave to the smoke 
Tightening the shackles with every toke
She let the smog pollute her
Only because
every gasp 
flooded her lungs
with the tender warmth
she so deeply craved 
But most of all
She was infatuated 
By the bewildering paradox
of being poisoned and embraced
All at once

-O.D-