Beggar's Benediction

How is it?

One click of a key

Steals your coy, half-grin

From me

Cerulean

Of summer-sky

Swept

To a bleak

And gray

Good-bye

How is it?

Coveting a page

From yesterday’s

Elusive stage

Can prompt

Quick poetry

Of tears

Or

Season-smiles

For yester-years

How is it?

One click of a key

Evokes

Familiar misery

‘Mornin’ darlin’’

And ‘farewell’

Falling prey

To the

Same

Knell?

How is it?

That the paradise

Of laughter

In a lover’s eyes

Dissolves

In oceans

Instantly

With one half-breath

Click of

A key?

© Janet Martin