Tears In a Tea Cup

Tears In a Tea Cup

Where did you go?
I am alone.
Tears gather in a tea cup.
The cat won’t drink from the saucer.

I see your scrawl

across the page.
You knew me
that long time ago.

I hear your drawl.
Doesn’t matter what the words,
in my ears
they were all true.

Kindness, you spoke of
simple, sweet kindness.
Something died.
The challenge was in living it.

Lindsay Riggs Brown