Elliot
Canto X
Smoke drifts through the neighborhood
I climb the particles
Running through a sky
Paved with airborne soot
Splendid freedom
Dark means
Bringing me closer to freedom
And those who live in it
But with a price
Confined to their shadows
Size of cities
Due to proximity
Allowed to hear
Not to feel
The joy that they share
I follow the smoke
Right back down to Earth
It leaves me on a city street
Beside a man with a cigarrette
He gives me a light
A Life in Poems 