Golden This Morning

Across the table, you and
Your hair in the gentle vent, chattering
Keystrokes, highs and lows,

Cup of coffee, no smoke, and
I never want to go; even when my eyelids
Droop, you just look golden this

Morning, and

Every word you said hit, paradoxically,
Powerful and transient as water, as I said,
“You give me life” and

Meant it, or maybe only just
Whispered it in my head, as I linger
Here, lost in your beauty this

Morning

Published by Gianni Vitale

Nurse, songwriter, and poet from Columbia, MO.

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