All Over A Cup Of Joe
12.16.2017
A pastry and
A cup of joe
Surrounded by people
I may never know
I have my own purposes
I have my own reasons
An irregular regular
And through this café’s windows
I’ve witnessed all seasons
I’ve seen people come
I’ve seen people go
Some now familiar
Some I will never know
At least we all have
A place we can go
At least we all have
A place we can go
The lonely man
Sits in a corner
A simple hello could stand
Between him and suicide
Such a fine line to walk
On his life he should decide
Hell lonely
Hell only a hello
But it could save his life
A couple tables down
A couple lays down
Through crisis of relation
Their rules of separation
A couple tables from them
A couple tables their plan
Their finances met
Their wedding date set
Like all colours of the spectrum
Are the lives I have not met
Our only connection’s
The coffee we get
A woman sits
Two children
They run around the table
She couldn’t prevent that anymore
Than how they shut off her cable
The third empty seat
It should have been filled
By the loser not there now
Never been
Never will
Full of friends
Full of acquaintances
Shared lobbies
Shared beliefs
Shared hobbies
All shared over coffees
And fresh made pastries
Observations made over
A cup of my own
While I chat with my friends
Some I’ve met
Some I’ve known
The lives we live
The world we know
All over a cup of joe
All over a cup of joe
Now it’s ten o’clock
Time that I head home
As I leave
To the lonely man in the corner
I say hello
Caught off guard
He swallows hard
And how hard was it
The power of a simple hello
All over a cup of joe
All over a cup of joe
