Best Poems Written by Delaney Keiper

Cafes of Berlin

 Cafes of Berlin 
 By Delaney Keiper 


These four walls 
blank and boring - keep me in 

Like a test rat, taught through shock and pain 
I am safe within my helplessness 

"You don't deserve it" the voices say.
 I put this pain on myself.

Here is where I stay in and drown my sorrows in Gin 
- instead of drinking coffee in the Cafes of Berlin. 

That's where all my happy friends are 
They don't stick around here no more, in these dark, dusty bars 

I  watch them all around me- sailing in the wind 
I can't put one foot in front of the other so I stay put and fake a grin. 

I'm stuck longing to complete tasks that I never will begin
Instead of drinking coffee with my friends in the Cafes of Berlin.

Copyright © Delaney Keiper | Year Posted 2016