Tea

Chilly fall day

After school

A craving for tea

Not chai

Not coffee

First tea in years

Sweetened 

With maple

Syrup

Sitting in 

The ancestral 

chairs that

I inherited

And my dad

Inherited and

My kids

Will inherit

I think of 

cribbage

And 

Get Smart

Reruns

Fifteen two

Fifteen four 

Fifteen six

And a pair

Is eight

One day

my mum

Forgot

How

I hope

I never

Forget