Coffee - SJ

Cold fingers walking on sheets of ice, perfect strangers all left to their own

devices

Just trying to making it through

Heavy coats in a smoke-filled room, dark wood floors where colors of spring

slip through the grooves

Just trying to make it through

Eyes barely open running down the field, catching bullets with teeth while the

girls do cartwheels

Just trying to make it through

Wait, wait, there’s still time, to trade this coffee for fresh eyes

If we get lost, we can try, to paint a map and hang it, on the sky

Noisy whispers make good kindle for the air, muddy shoes track thoughts that

once were quite clear

Trying to make it through

Sleepy mornings find life afternoon, mid-day poetry gives way to bright lights

and cheap motel rooms

Trying to make it through

Scratchy voices tell fairytales to walls, guitar strings echo passing notes

down the hall

Trying to make it through

Wait, wait, there’s still time, to trade this coffee for fresh eyes

If we get lost, we can try, to paint a map and hang it, on the sky

Sad endings meet happy streets, joy and sorrow come to give one another some

reprieve

Just trying to make it through

Hopes and dreams held high in the air, with fate and destiny tucked away under

a big red chair

Just trying to make it through

Soft hellos waive to hard goodbyes, a grass that’s greener for as long as time

stays on the side

And never makes it through

Wait, wait, there’s still time, to trade this coffee for fresh eyes

If we get lost, we can try, to paint a map and hang it, on the sky