So right you are. <br />When you say to me, <br />I don't know you. <br /> <br />How many years has it been now? <br /> <br />Everything you do, <br />Competes with the wind. <br />And I am not looking, <br />To begin questioning a habit... <br />I should not let begin. <br />This should have ended, <br />The moment it began! <br /> <br />So right you are. <br />When you say to me, <br />I don't know you. <br /> <br />How many years has it been now? <br /> <br />I wish you had been a cigarette... <br />And said that when I became first introduced. <br />I wouldn't be smoking now. <br />And of course, <br />I would not have had anything to do with you. <br /> <br />Neither one of you would have existed... <br />To get me to believe, <br />There was something in it for me... <br />Other than a habit that addicts I can no longer explain! <br /> <br />How many years has it been now? <br /> <br />'Too many! '<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-many-years-has-it-been-now/
