Monday, April 2, 2012

Soliloquy


Tonight, on the fourth night, your absence feels almost permanent,
our son, rather than ask for you, asked for his stuffed animal.
Tonight, making my usual mate and sipping it alone
feels more melancholy than ever.

I wonder if this is what years of solitude feel like,
I wonder if my face echoes that of this man.
Content to forever cebar his mate for one,
alone, a life unfallowed.

3 comments:

shaunie said...

Soliloquy for me.

Mac said...

I too understand the irony of drinking the friendship tea alone.

Ben said...

I always invite students and colleagues to share some friendship tea with me, but to no avail. However, when I took a class from one of our Argentine professors, I would bring mate to class and he would have a couple, it was cool.