Getting Caught (poem)

You wept
With the marijuana in your lungs
In a car that we were no longer in
You couldn’t breathe as well as you did
Before we got into this
I felt your cheek
And I closed my eyes
And we hoped for a dream
In a nightmare disguise
And it was all so rampant
Inside your veins
But your lungs still strained
And, with eyes still closed
I whispered your name
With your heart exposed
And all of a sudden
Everything grew tiny
And you could breathe again