Better Coffee, fully realized
The coffee keeps getting better. Third time’s the charm, baby!
I’m re-writing this with the power of looking back. I’m glad that I get to. It’s a privilege to reminisce with fondness instead of self-directed spite and frustration.
I maintained myself a stranger to you, the woman I preferred. Whenever you asked about myself, I’d dread a loss wrought by my own hands. After bathing with these worries, I’d punish myself with deserved bitter coffee. Worse than a bad brew was me forgetting the times you sought me. In the ankle-deep pond where I was drowning, was you who’d remind me to sit up and breathe. And here’s me still in the shallow wishing for us to sail again through ocean waves of playful tensions. Us once expecting me to move from coy interest to steady assurance. But there was only the pace of molasses with me anticipating a then yet-to-be ending. Please, if we could as we did before: explore locales like young adults together on a Friday night. Fondly, of course, with splashes of reminiscing too. Though haunting, still, is the memory of the darling air from your lips that rekindles a feeling, which I still can’t recall. Upon our first encounter, alleged by you, white rum won against reason and attempted romance proceeded to the silliest of unexpected movements. Expectedly, my advances were respectably defeated. We tried again, but the greatest variable against us was not the congruency of our souls. It became my lurching towards your heart colored by the terror of losing you. The fears weighed on my soul—a habit learned from dreading the Enemy’s fires. Possessed by a cross-borne guilt, I had went through the underworld and returned to the edge only to look back. That doubt saw my return to the self-imposed shoal where I continue to lose breath. I can’t blame you. Despite the fruit of time and retrospect, I’d prefer the fault lie with me. Still, these lamentations aren’t exciting in the adventurous sort of way. Danger was evidently not in any of my names, something you’ve maybe already crossed out on a list. Though you’re certainly worth hoping for, coveting doesn’t suit me. Could I love you better if we had made it? Fortunately, because of you and each day I get to remember you, I made off as someone who, unlike that self in nightmares where I forget, now has better coffee.
— Nico Santagoy
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