Tea for One

There’s a terrible static

That creeps in

Like slow

Pooling  water

Insidious and weary

“A minute feels like a lifetime,

Baby when I feel this way.”

I haven’t been writing

I’ve been walking

Wishing

Wearing lipstick

Sometimes

Hiding

A strange freeze

Mechanism

Like last years

Robot

Like

Sunflowers

Tipped over

I can’t tell you

What it’s about

Not to be sideways

It’s no ones business

It’s not even mine

But I have to bleed it

Somehow

There’s no where

To put it

A boiling pot

It burns through my hands

My heart

Out onto the pavement

I make dinner

Teach my children

Make sure

They get proper haircuts

They run everywhere

Always in a hurry

To live

It’s the only thing

That un-sticks  me

I hear their prayers

Their wonder

The joy they drink

From the everyday

They know the secret

Grown up me

Sometimes

Forgets

I play that one song

Over again

Wish for him

To be home

To kiss my shoulders

Underneath

This band aid of life

There must be

Hope

A vanished scar

Waiting to show itself new

Here

We are just

Healing each other

The cup

Sweet or bitter

Neat

Or not

Is worth drinking

For a second round