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