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