Coffee Shop Romance

Young man

You asked me to watch your

Things and

I said sure and

Looked up and

My god you were cute

When you came back you said thanks and

We smiled at one another and

Our gazes lingered

Just a bit

I don’t think it was my imagination

We spent the next half hour or so

Jiggling our legs and

Shifting our bodies and

Sneaking glimpses

Of one another out of the corners of our

Eyes

You watched me type and

I watched you read and

We both pretended we were just as alone

As we had been before

You spoke

But of course now there was

You and

Now there was

Me and

I know you wanted to say something

But didn’t know how to

Start

So instead you just cleared

Your throat

Now and then and

I smiled at my computer screen and

I left when my tea and battery got low

Refusing to care
Whether you watched me as I walked

Out of the coffee shop and

Into the rain.