Lovely Rain

English breakfast tea,
Two sugars. No honey.
Two over-easy eggs,
With the yokes dripping forth;
Molten gold.
Hash browns marred with
A dash of ketchup.
Silver flatware is set delicately
Before you.
Your china rose teacup
Curls around your hands;
A sleepy cat.
It is raining outside today,
Dripping down windows,
Falling from a drab gray sky.
The bay window at
The back of our house
Is fogged like a shower mirror.

Rain splashes against the car windows
As you absent-mindedly think of me.

You always knew exactly
How I took my coffee,
Without me having to tell you.

Earl Gray tea,
A dash of honey
To soften the bite of caffeine.
Scrambled eggs,
Toast instead of hash browns.
The flatware has become tarnished.
I no longer sip my tea
From a china tea cup painted with roses.

Rain falls harder
So I do not hear your call.