COFFEE

(Inspired by profile picture of DU poet Jestalessa, which showed her smiling with a coffee cup held close to her face. This is not the same woman as the person in the borrowed picture used here!)  
 
“Would you like to come in for a coffee?”  
I thought that you would never ask it me.  
Don’t get me wrong, I only want to see  
You, at ease, in your home territory,  
Be served something simple at your fair hand,  
Warming, sweet, stimulating, understand?  
I’ve drunk champagne, wines, cider, beer - but think  
Coffee is the king of the bonding drink.  
Capuccino, latte, whate’er you’ve got,  
Give it to me sweet, milky white and hot!

(Picture by Julio Portella Cesar Medina)