Sunday, August 4, 2024

A bitter brew May 2012


I feel the cold kiss

 of the beer glass

as I sip at the bar,

a bitter brew I knew

 coming I would taste,

 yet still came,

 this warm night in May

more than a week after my birthday,

 the chill tip of the glass like a bitter kiss,

 the feel of good bye,

the remote look in her eyes

 as she sits on the stool beside mine

her attention turning in every direction

n except the one I'm in,

her lips moist with the taste

 of a vintage I ache to taste,

but has become a rare year

I suspect I may never taste again,

regardless of how much I hunger for it,

 the taste of my drink

 like that brew Christ drank

 in that painful garden long, long ago,

 HE as I knowing the pain

 of what must come next,

the chill of the lips lost forever.

 

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