Enjoying My Own Company

Being on your own sometimes is a good thing ... :-)

Enjoying My Own Company

In a coffee Cafe corner space

Whimsically people watching

I de-gage embracing lone solace

To just enjoy my own company

Sipping contently the java brew

New faces of strangers all around

Take on imaginative reflections

Seen through the coffee’s steam

A young tightly uniformed barista

Sudductively serves her customers

Teasing them with sugary pastries

Of caleritic catastrophic proportion

New mothers gaggle like geese

Around circular tables of gossip

Parading pushchairs and prams

Festooned with suckling food-stains

I drift inside my mind to meditate

Revisiting old memorable memoires

Where calm sensitivity comes alive

Cleaning and cleanses psyche dust

Disengaging from feverish existence

Is not transforming into omega wolf

But simple exercising my right to be

Leaving all around to their alter cycle

Being here alone is not a loneliness

But a reconciliation of life choices

And I’m comfortable with my flaws

Bandaged over by my good efforts

I don’t depend on others to feel love

Accepting who I am is close enough

Here is hoping this radiates outwards

Spreading to all sat near my solitude

Copyright @ Phillozofee 2019

Reviews

[Marie-Louise.]

If this is all true then you are a lucky man, happy in your own skin. I could hear the bustle of the cafe, and your quiet contentment.
I am new to this, reviewing others work. I don't know how to score. I want to give 100, or even 110 sometimes. I'll learn.

[kitty]

Comes a time in life when the true reality strikes and one is content .. with ones lot in life and is accepting of the things that we are powerless to change ...and are content.. We see life more clearly from a more sane and rational perspective. Striking piece. Thank you for sharing.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Happiness only comes from within. It can't be bought or bargained for or become a slave to the actions of others. I think it often takes some time alone to understand that. Well done and well expressed.

[XuuL]

This is very familiar to me. Sometimes I sit alone in a cafe, just watching the scene around me while I try to be comfortable with myself. Revisiting memories and choices, thinking ahead of time or just being. Well put Phill.

[Laura Kate]

Just absolutely wonderful. What a lovely expression of the self - free, understanding of yourself, and unapologetic. No least for the fact that you have taken the time and the effort to reconcile with yourself and to accept your flaws, and to be comfortable with yourself - not an easy task, and not something most people are willing or able to accomplish.

These words stood out to me the most -

'I drift inside my mind to meditate
Revisiting old memorable memoires
Where calm sensitivity comes alive
Cleaning and cleanses psyche dust'

I can relate, it was lovely to read.
Huge, huge fan of this.

Best wishes,
Laura.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

I do this all the time I love it beautiful poem

[Luci]

the introvert's dream! very descriptive, took me right in to the setting. thank you for sharing.

[light and ashes]

I know this experience and practice it often. I like to imagine how the people I watch live their day to day lives... and ponder on who they are. Enjoyed this poem.