Hot chocolate

[egret_feathers]

I will learn
not to expect the 'right' thing to say
to be what I will say.
I will learn
to speak anyways.
And trust the listener
to forgive my imperfect communication
to judge my disarrayed thoughts gently
to remember
I will learn.
I took a sip of the wrong coffee;
someone elses. Embarassed-
I walked out of the coffee shop
pretending I hadn't noticed.
Pretending he hadn't noticed.
I played with my cell phone as I left.
felt pathetic.
felt lowly.
knew right then I hadn't yet learned.
All day I played through my thoughts
what I should have learned by now.
But the wrong coffee
is teaching me.