Cherish the Such
Sitting alfresco, with a screen open to the Daily
On a fashionable stretch of street
Lined with expensive everything where
Scents of coffee roast, mingled with vanity
Shiny hair flicking insults and smiles, as waiters
Danced between tables of note
Such is life, he wrote with a grin
Beneath the image he sent to his wife
Of himself and his morning café
His last morning, as it was, of the way he saw life
Looking back that moment quantified
That life isn’t such isn’t that
For some…
The image captured a smug well-dressed executive
In a comfortable life, enjoying the successes
Enjoying a coffee and the freedom
Enjoying life
The image also captured a boy
A boy in a chair
A special chair, with wheels and gadgets and
Controls just in reach
Of a life just such
Or perhaps just out of reach
Melancholy swept over him in that moment
Like witnessing the lowering of a casket of a loved one
He wasn’t sure if it were the tears that
Tendered an offer of concern from the waiter
Or, the fact that he’d spilled his coffee
He looked at the image again
Cherish the such…
Such is life he thought…
For some
Judy Konos Poetry Contest: C’est la vie
Mark Trichet
6 Nov. 2014
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