This Breakfast Is About Us

the black tea with its jasmine scent,

the crunchy bread with salted butter,

the yellow yolks coloring the platters,

and our sleepy faces and deeper voices,

the food begging cats sharing the chairs with us,

and the sunshine of this wonderful spring day

this is how my love takes shape,

in a cinematic scene

that develops in a loop

like a serpent eating its tail

we are here, out of time,

this breakfast is about us,

we are on its platter

and time soaks its morsels

into the yolks of our hearts.

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