Company Awaits

Your blue-striped four-legged, wooden sides facing me
Shining like the midnight sky 
With a comfortable, firm sitting
Like a distant, fresh green crop with rows of four sides 
Aiming for the center of all answers 

Showing dark-red loneliness on your hard back
Yet show brightness of hope facing South-West of the rising sun
Will you please sit down?

Company awaits for your two white, unattended chapter books
With a lit candle to welcome all visitors
Why can’t you come over and read a story or two?
Are you too busy for my attention?
Are you afraid to step foot on that bright, fall-colored carpet 
That you spend so much time mending?
Even the lonely, tame-green wall behind that lovely, ancient chair
Is giving you another set of enlightened audience for your reading pleasure
Please brighten our day!


Written at 4/15/02
Copyright 2002 Molly Zaloudek. All Rights Reserved.