Three Cigarettes and Facing a Dragon

Today I smoked three cigarettes
Indeed a terrible habit
I became jittery

The nicotine made me a jittery mess
My hands were shaking
And I think I knew why
It was the nicotine letting me have more adrenaline

And so
I looked up for the cure for nausea

Because the cigarettes made me nauseous

And so I drank hot chocolate

With sugar
Because nicotine depletes glucose and you have to replenish it to decrease the nausea

And then
I replied to a friend of mine

Someone I didn’t want to talk to for a while

Because there was a dragon between us

It took me to smoke 3 cigarettes

To face this dragon

Because I was lonely
I smoked the cigarettes

But I didn’t need to do that to solve my loneliness

All I had to do was face the dragon
Just a little bit
Chop one of it’s toes off
And call it a day
Retreat back into my cave
And

Write about the experience in weird mystical poetic language on Medium

Indeed this pandemic brings out the best and worst out of us

Face the dragon. You’ll find that just by looking at it, you have the courage to face it, and eventually defeat it. It will hurt. But you need to.