The Response Poem by Alessandra Liverani

If you stopped smoking cigarettes
Just like that, so suddenly
Do you think your body
Would raise an urgent plea?

Do you imagine it would implore
That you inhale the nicotine it so adores
Go down on bended knee
And beg for some so desperately

Or would it give a heartfelt thanks
That its heart and lungs which were so lank
Now began to burst with joy
The nicotine no longer would annoy

Would your lungs start celebrating
Because they were no longer aching
Your arteries and veins join in the party
Now they felt so hale and hearty