Embrace Every Day
Chris Bodor is a US poet, who was born in 1967 in Connecticut to an English mother and a Hungarian father. After working for ten years in New York City, he moved to Florida in 2003. In August of 2009, Chris started hosting monthly poetry readings on the last Sunday of every month in St. Augustine, Florida. During the past 25 years, Bodor’s poems have appeared in many independent, small, and micro-press publications, such as the Lummox Journal, FM Quarterly, and Old City Life.
Chris Bodor
Florida, USA
The morning coffee that you crave
is now knocked over
Wasted. Never tasted
Soaked into the carpet of your car.
The unused umbrella
that you carried all month
is lost at this moment
while you walk to work
in the pouring rain.
Your partner
lies beside you every night
Then you fight
Suddenly one of you is sleeping alone
on the sofa in the living room.
You speak of love
during your daily routine
but what does love really mean?
Define love before it leaves
Embrace every day
Quick, before love slips away.