Jasmine Green Tea

We’re sitting alone
In the coffee shop
Sipping on jasmine green tea
Where we came to be together
So no one would see us
And no one ever did.

I am sitting alone
In the coffee shop
A thousand strangers swarm around me
You walk in from the snow outside
I look twice to make sure it’s you
And it is you.

We’re sitting alone
In the Italian Bistro
Sharing laughs and a canoli
Where we came to read Pessoa
On our first of many nervous lunches
On that cool promising April afternoon

I am sitting alone
In the coffee shop
Sipping on jasmine green tea
As soon as I walk out of the door
You appear unexpectedly
We collide, smile and keep walking

We're sitting alone
on that park bench
underneath the street lamp
You tell me for the first time
you're falling in love with me
and I am alive again.

I am sitting alone
in front of the airport
trying to stop the tears
from falling as I watch
you walk away having told you
I would love you always.

We’re sitting alone
At our computer desks
Ten miles away from each other
You send me a message
Reminding me:
“Yo siempre tendria tiempo para ti”

I am sitting alone
In the coffee shop
Sipping on jasmine green tea
Tinged with the mild hope
That fate would bring you to meet me
But you never came.