Bitter
I started drinking my coffee black
Because it impressed you
When I downed it at your house that day
And this evening,
My thoughts of you were just as bitter
As the taste left in my mouth
From the coffee as black as the hole
In my heart/
In my head
That I had thought you had begun to fill.
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