Holy Smoke: The Mysticism of Cigarettes and Wine

I’ve figured it out

Sarah and the cigarettes

It’s a ritual

Primordial

And elemental

Fire

Water

Earth

And air

The match

Strikes

The striking strip

A flame

Sparked

Touched to the cigarette

This product of earth and sky

Which to earth and sky

It shall return

Momentarily

An inhale

A deep breath

Another drag

Another still

This substance

Of time

And tobacco seed

Of mineral damp

mixed with the solar energy

Returning

As ash

As smoke

And finishing off

This elemental and nearly, if not wholly,

Holy communion

Water transformed

A sip of wine

A medicine

Soothing to body

And

Lightening to mind

Warning: Smoking Kills!

(copyright) 2018 Darrell Arnold