Awake

by Nicky Hurle

I awake (and)

I don’t want to get up (of course)

I rouse (when)

He comes in (between)

His trips to the loo (and)

I get up.

I sense the coffee (when)

I smell the grounds (and)

I head to the kitchen (like)

a moth to a flame (but)

suggest we have breakfast out.

We get back (and)

He makes the coffee (like)

It’s a bee in his bonnet (though)

I don’t care (who)

Makes the stuff (when)

All I want to do it drink a cup.

I sip the ambrosia (as)

He sits by me (on)

The couch (and)

Smiles at me (before)

Giving me the yearned for kiss (or)

Look of approval.

written in response to exercise seven