Strong Coffee Ate a Silver Spoon

Strong Coffee Ate A Silver Spoon Strong coffee ate a silver spoon Blind feline lapped up the spilled milk Sweet relief cannot come too soon I slept on sheets of finest silk Gone such dreams with vanishing moon Dry toast from molded bread was made Served with the world's gold gilded lies Sides of temptations, well displayed Seeds of regrets in cherry pies I, a blind jackass, sorely brayed Eggs were scrambled while feeling pain Table sighed, "Why am I left bare?" Except for heartache's tenured stain and foolish pride that placed it there I hear cries in horrid nightmares Plum jam scooped from a broken jar Morn's mirror showed my old hurts bludgeoned by love's iron bar Stove hissed at me, "Your just desserts!" I deserved each deeply etched scar Robert J. Lindley, April 2nd, 2002 Rhyme, (Early dawn, Breakfast speaks, Life's foibles)...