Two Sunsets

All that you owe me
is a couple of sunsets.
Not a ray more, not a ray less
all that you owe me
is a couple of sunsets.

Two incoherent stories
wrapped around a coffee mug
a kingdom of two rooms
expanded to a hug.

A cake cut into
pieces of time,
savoured over
a private rhyme.

All that you owe me
is a couple of sunsets.
Maybe a ray more, maybe a ray less
all that you owe me
is a couple of sunsets.

(First published in Brown Critique: July 2013)