by SOUM (Screams of Unfettered Minds)
Smoking is a suicidal act
But you don’t see that even as
A nicotine haze blackens
Your personal space, your
Long-suffering lungs
Burn, crying to
You, please stop
Smoking
Fool.
THE END (a nonet poem)
SOUM (Screams of Unfettered Minds) is a collaboration of three Pasifika women from New Zealand, who prefer their art and poetry to speak for them. This newly-formed trio describe their style as raw, unpolished, tongue-in-cheek, unapologetic, unfiltered, born from years of shadow-work and presented straight from the heart. They champion mental awareness and social issues and gain inspiration from the struggles of everyday people; the darker aspects of their physical, mental and spiritual battles.