If We Were Having Coffee…
Have you ever struggled to move on from someone? May be someone you loved but could never lose? Or someone who went to heaven, only to never come back? A friend, a parent, a lover, or someone you don’t even identify a relationship with? May be this poem will take you back to those memories. It will take you to the times where you must have imagined – “What if we met”? “What if we were having coffee”? How would it be to simply cuddle and just, plain lie down together for a while? Or maybe howl your lungs out – scream & cry and just let all that pain bleed through your eyes?
This Poem is my entry for the 7th day & the Last day of the Write Tribe Festival of Words #6. The prompt for today is:- “If we were having coffee”.
Some day when we meet, & if we were having coffee …
I’d tell you how I loved having you around
I’d tell you how much you mean to me
And may be, wait to hear the same from you.
Some day when we meet, & if we were having coffee …
I would tell you that I only pretended with my back towards you,
Sleep never came to my flooded heart and the glass of water never spilled on my pillow
and the glass of water never spilled on my pillow.
Some day when we meet, & if we were having coffee …
I’d tell you how your presence & absence meant the same back then
And how your absence and presence feel the same right now.
Some day when we meet,& if we were having coffee …
I’d tell you how much I’ve waited to have coffee with you
I never found someone who could brew a better cup…
That your thaumaturgy with coffee or me couldn’t be replicated.
Some day when we meet, & if we were having coffee …
I’d tell you that your name pops up in my head every time I pray
No matter how I hate that,
but I still ask for your happiness… & for you.
Some day when we meet & if we were having coffee …
I’d tell you that I never loved coffee, my favorite was tea
Unless I met you and drenched in the piety of everything you gave me
Even the tears seem priceless now, even the pain seems treasury
I love you, your coffee, you mean the world to me.
Some day when we meet, & if we were having coffee …
I’d tell myself that maybe it was meant to be this way
But then I sit down and think of having coffee with you,
and it never feels the same.
Some day when we meet, & if we were having coffee …
I’d ask you for the chunk of me you took with you.
I know neither you nor the chunk is ever coming back,
But I miss it badly, the chunk & you.
But I wish I can pour my feelings verbatim in front of you.
May be you hear my thoughts, while I blankly stare in the blue
I don’t know if that’s happening, and even if it’s not,
My last wish is to die with “if-we-were-having-coffee” thought.
P.S.: I’m quite a funny person per se, so the above is a figment of my imagination.
Do drop me a comment on how this poem made you feel.
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You may also like to read:- Meri Maa (My Mother)
You may also like to check out my entry for Day 5 in the Write Tribe Festival of Words #6 “My Dear Table” – An Open Letter to the Tables of the World
This poem is my Day 7 entry in the Write Tribe Festival of Words #6
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dear Character of the poem, Don’t die with this thought…just love it and you will feel that you have lived your entire life .. 🙂
Your pain is really palpable and I do hope this is not based on a real life ( at least in yours) incident. My sympathies with the person whose love has left .
hehe, no this is not my life. I’m quite a funny person per se 😛 My blog is humor basically 😀
Wonderful poetry Prisha. I could actually imagine the scene while I was reading it..
Very beautiful and painful poetry. You wrire it down with beautiful words which are very expressive. Even i can imagine the story also in my Imaginary world. Fabulous reading
Very nice poetry. Through each word it expresses the love that’s so romantic. Love to read more.
Where there is coffee, there is me. I love coffee more than any other drink
Even though its not your story but you made us live through it. Heart touching, soul touching.
Love is absolutely the essence of life… I hope and pray that everyone is always surrounded by their loved ones
Loved it ! I have also Read ‘meri ma’ previously and liked that one too.. you should write more poems 🙂
Loved reading it. coffee lover like me is always ready for coffee. The poem is really good.
Wonderful write up especially your poem
Beautiful play of words! The prompt was quite difficult but you turned it into a fine poem. Wow..
You write so beautifully.. loved it.. someday when we meet and if we have coffee.. wow!
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It’s a heart touching poem
I can feel the loneliness of the coffee lover beautiful life they have I wish they’ll be together forever
That’s such a well-written poem. Loved the 3rd last stanza. Keep trying your hand on poetry Prisha. You are really good at it. Looking forward to read more such poetic stuff.
I like the way you right articles. I totally go in an imaginary world.
You must publish a book compiling these poems and articles. So subtle yet so deep!
Nice poetry. Made me remember my old days.
Very very wonderfully worded love the premise. Yrs e eryone has someone that goes away in their life and leaves a void… But ur poem very well describes the void with a cup of coffee.
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This is a very beautiful poem. I would wish to use it in my future English books for the next year.
Lovely poem. I could feel the pain behind this poew. Such powerfully expressed. But it’s different from the rest of your posts. Loved reading it.
Beautifully composed. More power to you and your compositions 🙂
this is really beautiful poem, !!!
This is a really beautiful poem I have read in sometime. It’s so simple yet so powerful. Beautifully composed. M sure, being a funny person, writing such a piece must have felt like be an achievement. Cheers!
How beautifully written…..one can feel the longing and passion in the words.