The Alone Woman in the Chair

Alone she sits in a chair
Smoke dancing in the air
A lit cigarette hanging from her mouth
Slowly smoking her life away
Minutes bleeding out day by day
The hourglass is running out
And it makes me want to shout
As the seconds hemorrhage away.

My lungs burn from the room
Of the impeding doom
They heave up and down
Because in the smoke they drown
Choking and burning my lungs are screaming
Pleading for me to get away
While the lone woman pleads for me to stay

She's such a lowly sight
It fills me with fright
I cannot bare to see
What may not longer be
The smoking woman doesn't know what she's doing to me
Pulling at my heart
That's already falling apart

I glance over at her
She stares back at me
The old lone woman's wide eyes filled with confusion
While mine are tainted with misery.

She doesn't know what's going on
She doesn't know what she's become
Only a shadow of the person she was