Morning Coffee
Ah! The smell of morning coffee,
unlike her cheap perfume last night
it makes me want to see 
another day, another way 
ahead. 
Ah! The dripping from dunking 
this stale bread, like our conversations 
it softens with time. 
Ah! The whispers under white sheets,
like raging torrents in the pine forests
made of sterner stuff than I
am. 
Ah! The dreams again find their way
into the grey matter, hard as rock
like the place of my solitaire for you
presently occupied by another’s. 
Ah! The smell of morning coffee. 
Without it, what would I be?
