cafe' au lait

Café' au lait
By james a. galgano

Another gulp of your five and dime café' au lait
To take off the dulling edge of another hectic day
Before approaching night descends into endless dream
Eyes wide awake or so how hopeless life often seems.
While sitting quietly alone for extended hours on end
Trying to fabricate a hopeful smile but then why pretend.
As loneliness descends over mirrored reflection in a shroud
Of deceit like a life now hopelessly incomplete head in the clouds
Gathering overhead where laughter once fell like endless rain.
Now only storm clouds of indifference abound left to explain.
What surely might have been but will now never be true?
While caught in an ongoing lie of what has become of you
With your puzzled head on backwards so unable see clearly
Of all that was so once easy to surmise and survey dearly
Within a long loving passionate embrace, the scent of her allure
The taste of each precious kiss that would endlessly cure.
All that ailed you but now in empty room nothing left to cling to
But each endless memory of every moment shared as you.
Once more awake into echoes of an unforgettable past so divine
That its momentum is still able to carry you forward by design
Into another tomorrow becoming so effortlessly another day
Where to get by one more moment alone you savor café' au lait