Coffee Date

I know that one day
Maybe years from now
We will sit for a cup of coffee
Suddenly nostalgic for times past
Because, whether we’ll want it or not
They will end that day.
Already I can speak of much joy
Of exhilaration and complicity
As well as a lot of pain you didn’t think necessary
To not inflict upon me
But by the time we sit down for that coffee
The wheel will have turned
And I will be the one who brings things to a halt.
I will be the one breaking up with you
That day
Maybe because you will have siphoned all my strength
Maybe because the magic extra inch of my love for you
Will be trusted to someone else’s care
Someone more appropriate my friends will say
Someone readier I could say, lying to myself
Someone who loves you He would say
Someone who’s taking you away from me, you’ll say silently
And we’ll all be right
Even me

‘Cause in the end I will be taken away from you
If you don’t keep me
I will kidnap myself if I have to
In an act of radical sanity.
You know that.
After numerous meetings with myself
I have come to the conclusion that I can’t unlove you
My computer just underlined that word in red
It agrees with me apparently
But the magic inch will be diverted from you
You know that don’t you?
You are losing me daily with your reticence
I am not expecting sexual intercourse from you
Just magic.

However, today, you are still the sun to me
And I can’t really believe that coffee date will come.
Neither of us even likes coffee…
But I know it will.