Single Mother

Starbucks cups litter

The stove and the tabletop

Mingling with wrappers


Tired dinner for one

Eaten alone by the sink

Food–nothing fancy


Calm quiet at last

Responsibilities cease

Children are asleep


Remembering times

Fancy free and limitless

Burdened but with dreams


Life came and I left

Life came–nothing left


By Melissa Lemay

From: United States

Website: http://melissalemay.wordpress.com