The Front Door
It used to look so good to me
On my day off –
Opening the front door
And seeing it empty.
I’d close the door and make breakfast,
Or I’d go out and get breakfast,
Knowing I only had to stand people
For a few minutes while the eggs were being made
And I would soon be home alone again.
Later it would look so good to me
On my day off
To open my front door
And see her standing there –
Lovely and impossibly radiant before the burgeoning sun.
Beautiful, a miracle.
She would come in and we would kiss,
Her body a malleable sadness
That would melt into the tragic loneliness of me
For the few hours we were allowed.
Now, today on my day off
I open the front door and
It doesn’t look good to me.
“I used to know what it was like to be alone
But not lonely”
I think to myself
While my breakfast waits on the stove
And a car goes by before me in either direction.
John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. His first poetry collection from Cajun Mutt Press is now available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6W2YZDP . fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online.
It used to look so good to me
On my day off –
Opening the front door
And seeing it empty.
I’d close the door and make breakfast,
Or I’d go out and get breakfast,
Knowing I only had to stand people
For a few minutes while the eggs were being made
And I would soon be home alone again.
Later it would look so good to me
On my day off
To open my front door
And see her standing there –
Lovely and impossibly radiant before the burgeoning sun.
Beautiful, a miracle.
She would come in and we would kiss,
Her body a malleable sadness
That would melt into the tragic loneliness of me
For the few hours we were allowed.
Now, today on my day off
I open the front door and
It doesn’t look good to me.
“I used to know what it was like to be alone
But not lonely”
I think to myself
While my breakfast waits on the stove
And a car goes by before me in either direction.
John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. His first poetry collection from Cajun Mutt Press is now available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6W2YZDP . fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online.
