New Poem!

I wrote this in college and it was published in a collection of poems written by students.  It is over ten years old, but I still love it and I feel as though I could have written it yesterday.  I did do a few revisions.  I hope you'll like it.

There in his Room

By: Leslie Li Hikida

He mumbles as he leaves the bedroom

and I lose him somewhere between

hallway and kitchen. 

I take a drag from the cigarette I’m holding,

wondering what he’s just said under such

measured breaths.

Perhaps he’s said he adores me,

that I make him happy,

and that he hates to see me go.

Or perhaps he’s said he detests me,

that he can’t wait for me to leave,

and that he wishes I were anywhere but here.

Either way, for the moment I am content,

there in his room, with he in the kitchen,

and I on my back.