Orange Pekoe Tea

In the dark recesses  

of the kitchen cabinet 

sits a jar  with an airtight lid 

of the Orange Pekoe, loose leaf  

aromatic black tea. 

 
Each morning from that jar 

a spoonful gets taken out 

to help start the day 

with warm cup of a tea 

sitting in a wooden tray. 

 
The same happens 

be it winter, spring, summer,  

or fall. 

 

One spoonful a day 

the jar gets little emptier

and emptier. and

emptier.
 

Then one day  

hits the awareness 

there is only few more spoonful 

of the Orange Pekoe tea  

are left in the jar, and then,

there would be none.

 

 Is it not very much alike 

what happens with life?