Coffee

Waking up to a message from you was like waking up the smell of coffee in the morning,

You picked me up and kept me smiling the whole day with just a few words,

A few words that told me that you cared,

A few words that told me that you wanted me to be happy,

A few words that told me I was your first thought for the day,

But as the years went by that sweet message never came,

It was more of a glass of cold water splashed across my face,

Sweet words replaced with status updates of where you were.

The magic was gone, feelings were replaced by an update,

The magic was gone and things had settled into mundane.

The change wasn’t one-sided, it happened before we knew it,

Things went from sweet and caring the comfortable and convenient,

It happened so naturally we never saw it coming like a storm on a sunny day.

Before anyone knew it, things changed to just another couple and not the couple.

How fast things could change, in a heartbeat everything was never the same.

The chapter is over but the book continues like nothing really happened at all,

Sure there were some changes and feelings our heroes had to deal with,

But the plot thickened with each page and chapter, it all added character.

But a single tradition lost in between the twists and turns our hero still remember,

Something once caring and loving became cold and routine but is still missed still the same.