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Marked, scarred, worn wood

We use to sit and eat meals together

Four am meetings of jobs at the breakfast table

Eating top ramon noodles at high noon

Birthday dinners, holiday dinners

Watching or listening to ball games

All these years at the table together

The past eight years it has just been me

I sit alone with our memories

The echoes of times together

It has traveled from one home to another

Lost a bolt the last move, but I kept the table

I am asked "Why not get another table?"

I still have the leg! But no, it was my dad's table

Three legs or four, I still sit at the table

I started to repair it but didn't finish

Someday I will have it finished

But the memories of love remain

Now my family gathers together around it

I hope for many more times