Kiki Poem by mimi brown

The town square was tepid in the early morning light.
Tea for two and a squirrel begging for food.
Serenity transposed on a single blade of grass.
A moment's pause in a possible lifetime.
Conversations rounded the trees as the cars
started their race to work, school and every place
that was not where we were.

Innocent enough, how the words carefully spoken
mingled with the changing traffic lights.
And something deeper, rising from our
mutual but separate ideas of where to go next.
The flutter of a bird wing and a heart wishing
for more or less the same thing.

At full day break, the moment passed into an
eternity of regrets and future sorrows.
We rose from our park bench, discarding
the now empty cups and walked out of the
sunlight wondering what happened and
would we ever feel that way again.

For E.C. with gratitude and love