Love Poem: Lead Me To Breakfast
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Written by: Elizabeth Shannon

Lead Me To Breakfast

I am alone in this room
We might have shared
Sleep deprived 
Liquor store medicated
And emotion numb
Night settled in 
Like a slow dance
whiskey hanging on every breath
Keeping memories at bay
In this eternal winter
You have left 

No count of sheep
Will lead me to that dream
In your blue checkered shirt
That sparingly covers me

Where you would
 take my left hand
 in your right
And your left 
which should
 comfortably rest at waist
 drops to my bottom
 just like I’d expect
In my perfect world
And we’d two-step
Until day breaks us

From forced breath 
To fake smile
To this Palm bay  breakfast
Beneath a blood shot rainbow

The broken world  can still rotate
Enough to rise sun
And sink moon
Like the broken heart
Left with just enough will
To keep a steady beat