These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Dull & Gray Coffee Day

How thick the clouds it takes to keep
the sun beyond our reach!
Emotions lie so very deep.
Can Truth yet seek to teach?

How strong the sun, that shines on through
the threads of blanket clouds!
We see it not, but hope is due
to light, that never shrouds.

This soft-box in the corner bids
us, "Fill a cup of Joe,
and stay awhile a-sipping 'mid
the lights, that slowly grow."

To sit and wait, to sip and taste,
to rest in thoughts of peace,
it is this time, that Life is faced
with anxious fears, that cease.

A latte passes o'er the rim,
until it's fin'lly through,
but fill, again, it to the brim,
and sipping's time is new.

by Jay O’Toole
on March 9th, 2022