Friday, May 3, 2013

Table


The table would have loved to know
It had company.
When on it the reader sat with a book
Read for hours, leaned on it with an inward look,
The rows of emotions that came through the words
The table thought it was the reader’s world.

It would have loved to know
It had company.
When the writer stormed into the pages
Hands shivered to deliver the cages,
Felt a myriad of things untold
The table thought it touched the heart warm and cold.

It would have loved to know
It had company.
When they sat and ate on it
Foods flew in they loved and laughed
Or fought for truth when they bluffed,
Cleaned and cleared in heat and snow
The world outside played symphony.

It’s lying now in a locked up room
With no one there, none to broom
No one reads no one writes
No one eats, loves or fights
To let it think it was a knight.
The gloom of cloud cleared away,
When it thought of the floor and the wall,
Plastic pains had drained to say,
It felt the stable silent call.

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