i went into a restaurant

sat down

ordered a coffee

thoughts still fuzzy

with the long travel.

with the coffee came

déjà vu of

the same restaurant

the same table

the same chair,

you are sitting

just across

showing me

your fiancée's picture

from your engagement photo

which you took out

carefully from your purse.

you are smiling, in the photo

I am smiling at

your smile in the photo

and you sat smiling at me

I still remember

both of us

smiling at each other.

now, in the restaurant

where I sat down for a coffee

which is crowded

in the evening ruffle

our smile is just a memory

and I am sitting alone,

devastatingly alone.

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