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# Breakfast In Bed
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/breakfast-in-bed/
- Published: 2025-12-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Belatedly, I've understood a truth: Life's naught but the displacement of an ache well-masked by the euphoria of youth, so one can be permitted the mistake
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Belatedly, I've understood a truth:  
Life's naught but the displacement of an ache  
well-masked by the euphoria of youth,  
so one can be permitted the mistake

of failing to discern, to pry apart  
its meaning: Pain that jumps from limb to limb,  
to settle, when it chooses, in the heart,  
and not in fault or error, on a whim,

but by its grand, elaborate design.  
Awake, in bed, examining your pains,  
your mind, exhausted, searching for a sign,  
as blood continues coursing through your veins,

that it is not yet time. That it still hurts...  
Until one day, no breakfast. Just desserts.

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