Observations placeholder

Brown café [Adapted from a poem by Louis MacNeice]

Time was away and somewhere else
There were two glasses and two chairs
And just us two with just one pulse
Somebody had brought cheese, meat and other fare
But time was away and somewhere else
 
We did not know whether we were up or down
The café’s chatter seemed to almost stop
The beer was sweet strong limpid brown
Within this famous warm bare drinking shop
We did not know whether we were up or down
 
The smoke coiled silent in the air
Holding its shape it did not seem to flow
It hung between the ceiling and the lips
Of those with half smoked cigarettes who drank below
The smoke coiled silent in the air
 
Your fingers lingered over all of me
Your hands exploring where none sees
You did not even care if they could see
When we had moments such as these
Your fingers lingered over all of me
 
Time was away and somewhere else
The waitress did not come, the clock
Forgot us and the noisy crowd of people
Sat as turned to stone or made into a rock
Time was away and somewhere else
 
Time was away and you were here
And life no longer what it was
The brown cafe, no change over all the years
And all the room aglow because
Time was away and you were here