Another Coffee Shop Poem

Becky Curl
Jun 11, 2022
Photo by Ben Kolde on Unsplash

Somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow there’s I’m sorry.
Maybe I spent too much time loving you,
Instead of learning how to say goodbye.

I think that you are my way of pretending that the world isn’t ending.

Every day I find new ways to reopen this wound.
You have a new job, a new home,
A soon-to-be wife.
But I’m still here.
Sitting at the same coffee shop,
Drinking the same coffee in the same seat where I looked at you and knew
it was over
Long before you would ever admit it.

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Becky Curl

Freelance Make-Up Artist & Teacher. Wig & Make-Up Designer. Freelance Writer. Coffee, dogs & pop-punk are my life. MFA student at Roosevelt University.