Sunday, December 31, 2023

A Breakfast invitation April 2012


My book lies on her bed

Where my body should be

Smooth surface

Of blankets and sheets

As unruffled as an unruffled sea

With me Castaway

Turning my gaze away

Scared to death

This is an illusion

Or a pathetic wanderer

With parched lips

In an endless desert

Aching for a sip

Wishing too hard for it,

Book face down

With my face staring back,

My body already there,

But not hers

The two of us,

In this string of room

Doors and windows,

Stark sunlight

Instead of candle light,

Thoughts of romance

Lost

In this invitation to breakfast

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