The 99 Poem Challenge (Fox-Trot-9) ✓

90. LaCharta -- Coffee Steam

The 99 Poem Challenge
Fox-Trot-9

90. LaCharta — Coffee Steam

Inside this aromatic brew
(Its dark reflection in my view)
Is something sweet and something new,
Reminding me of loving you.
      I stare into this coffee cup
      When suddenly my mind brings up

The memory of rubbing lace
When you were in my soft embrace,
The stunning beauty of your face,
The motions of your fluid grace,
      The mirth you used to share with me,
      The friendship that had set us free.

We used to be so intimate,
Devoid of anger and of hate
That took our love and changed our fate;
I want to set the record straight:
      We're both to blame for our mistakes,
      So let's forgive for both our sakes.

For death is just a seamless screen
Over the sparkle and the sheen
Of this mere coffee cup's caffeine;
Now something has to intervene
      Before we part our ways for good,
      Before we leave misunderstood.

No matter what you think I did,
I never meant to take that bid
To get you pregnant with my kid,
Nor did I think of getting rid
      Of our one child your death denied
      Of having a mother when you died.

My love, if you could only see
The man our boy turned out to be,
I really think you would agree
I turned a painful tragedy
      Into the triumph of a dream,
      Of living hope in coffee steam.

(To be continued...)

A/N: The LaCharta, created by Laura Lamarca, consists of a minimum of 3 stanzas with no maximum length stipulation. Each stanza contains 6 lines. The syllable count is 8 per line in iambic tetrameter and the rhyme scheme is aaaabb ccccdd eeeeff and so on.

Meter: Iambic tetrameter
Rhyme: aaaabb ccccdd eeeeff...

Note: This poem concludes the theme started in the 79th poem in the collection, "Synchronicity — Waiting," and continued in the 81st poem of this collection, "Stave — Beer Goggles."