She forgot to come back?

I play with a little heap of
Muscovado sugar
On the coffee shop table
While I stare at her soft, empty seat
Clumpy grains of sugary sand
Glistening like her hazel-nut eyes
Sounding as sweet
As a hummingbird's kiss

Maybe she forgot to come back
Because I forgot to love her
Maybe she forgot to seek me
While I was still sitting still
Maybe my mind was drawn to other planets
While she was content with earth
So many what-ifs
So few answers
At least the spoonful
Of sad brown sugar
Still tastes sweet.

Reviews

[jesserose99]

sometimes alignment just isn't happening. beautiful poetry, I found myself swept away by your sugar...wanting for you but feeling the pieces not working. lovely work.

[SleeplessVolcano]

Yes, is that not the beauty of words? Being swept away, driven by peaceful musings. I need to put my boots on again and search for some peace again at the end of a distant dirt road....:)

[B]

missing another
is no easy trip

but if we cant miss them
then we dont really know how we feel about that person

love this

[SleeplessVolcano]

Our confused feelings often evolve, when we know how to nurture them......then again, it helps if they started the right way, with the right motives, and with the right person.

Thank you for commenting.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

it's good to realize that spoonful of sugar still tastes sweet, because the speaker knows the answers to the what if's and the maybes...she didn't forget...he didn't love her enough, she is gone...
and he is left with the sugar as his only sweet thing left.

[SleeplessVolcano]

Do we not continuously seek sweetness in life? Funny how bitterness often makes us thankful for the sporadic blessings of sweetness.

Thanks for sharing your probing thoughts.

[Edenisinsane]

This poem contains so much emotion and yet it's not too overpowering, Great work

[SleeplessVolcano]

Thank you, insane one. Your nickname makes me feel better about myself. :)

[Cryingkate]

Sounds like the waitress who gave you a cup and forgot to pour the coffee. Oh My, Now That's a Tragedy :-)

[SleeplessVolcano]

Aaahhhhh......i file my deficiencies alphabetically.....remind me one day to tell you all about E.....Empty cup syndrome....;)

I am chasing the song of a beautiful bird down a winding canyon.....hopefully it is not a trap....;)