Hold the Sugar
He left it there, on the table
where they
once used to make love on
a fairly regular
basis too, he just happened
to add, while
wrapping a tear in a clean
handkerchief ..
He often wondered these
days after so
many years, whether she
still retained
such perfect recollections
as he did, or if
she worried about anything
at all, except
maybe where he left her
mid-morning
coffee and rich tea biscuit ..
But what really
brought a tear to his eyes
on that day of
all days, was that he knew
she could not
recall whether he still took
his strong, black
and with no sweetener at all ..