CUP WARMER
His first task, upon getting out of bed,
is to mindlessly make coffee and wait
anticipating the first sip of the cup warmer
A quarter cup of coffee too hot to drink
In a cold cup turns out to be about right.
Added to the pleasure of this first sip
is a memory of a moment when
There were hopes that she would love
him as he did her. She had said,
“Oh, I warm my first cup in the same way.”
Ah!, he had thought, “She and I have this in common.
We could wake each morning and warm our cups together.”
But sharing small habits is not enough.
And those two cups remained forever cold.
Copyright 8/23/2020, by Theodore “Tod” Lundy, Architect