American Drive at Starbucks

In a world where too many of the gathering places are only taverns and bars

Where any attempt to have a conversation is usually below par

False fronts and a lot of stranger meeting stress

So easy to the open hand of human feelings suppress

Yet somehow over coffee on a July 23 day in a Harbor and Wilson corner Starbucks

Where more and more of us come to study or office confines chuck

No matter the intensity of the study or need to complete a job

The basic human instinct to reach out and converse is not robbed

Two live reasons why this country in the end will excel

Across this poet while on preparing for exams they dwell

One to be a dentist, the other off to graduate school

Anyone who writes that this nation’s youths’ drive has fallen off is a fool

Eric and Cindy whom I believe in separate paths will be a very successful pair

When it comes to creativity we are beyond compare

Both like victors and kings of old a herald or a Homer need

A poem to announce the success of their efforts in the future that we will read

© July 23, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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