L3P2: Caffe Latte

 Caffe Latte

 

You loved coffee, as much as sunlight

Italian coffee, caffe latte

No sugar, sprinkle of hazelnut

Your smile were so bright

And caught my heart so tight

 

We began with laughter and joy

I see into your eyes, no light can decoy

Love was easy, nothing can destroy

I was the expresso velvety 

You are the lovely steamed milk

Made perfect smoothly silk

Café latte filled each morning

Sharing our dreams, with no warning

 

We seek perfection in our caffe latte

From the mountains of Ethiopia

To the land of Columbia and Java

Beans grown with great care

Searching the rarity that was so rare

Leaving our hearts to each other so bare

 

Black, with cream sugar or spice

Each is unique, hot or iced

Espresso, Cappucino, Mocha, café au lait

You always choose Café Latte

 

Those were the times we shared a cup

Now the latte tasted different somehow

As our past and present rushing into now

The warmth of the cup, no longer comforting

Our love no longer blooming

Into the deep winter it withering

With no fire that can be warming

 

Each sip, the bitterness linger

It is too strong, too condense, too intense

Mourning our lost time together, so tender

The bitterness was beyond words

 

The fights we had, made us quitters

The dreams we had, became disasters

Since when, since when?

We became each other fighters

We torn each other with our past after

When we promised to be each other shelters

Yet we hurt each other so deep in this chapter

Do we still in love?

 

 

Steam from mug rises and swirls

Our past diluted, and all of its pearls

Sugar won’t change its curl

I gazed into rainstorm that harshly hurl

 

I took another sip, I closed my eyes

As your shadows and memories flashed back

All gone now like the passing rain storm

Left my heart severely deform

 

But as I sit here, with caffe latte we loved

I know one day, we will heal slowly

The bitterness, will fade away

New love will come to our way

 

As for now, I will sip this caffe latte in peace

As I wait for my heartbreak to cease

It was bitter, reminder of our pain

But it is a sign that I will love again

 

Perhaps when we meet again

We no longer in pain

As I dry up my tearstain

And your beautiful gaze remain

With the caffe latte in my hand

Greeting each other in that café of rain

“Hello. How are you?

Nice to see you, again.”

 

 Kota Kinabalu, 20 April 2023. 

Photo by Fahmi Fakhrudin on Unsplash