Cafe terrace at night

The night was warm,

streets crowded

With couples in a swarm.

Pure love, they had found it.

Though the people in the shadows were torn

No mate to see,

Only a somber love life to mourn

Hoping to get that nice feeling inside

Pull out that loneliness thorn

That's what the outsiders desir2

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The inspiration for this poem came from the 1888 Vincent Van Gogh painting “Cafe Terrace at Night.” At first glance you see couples sitting at a cafe at night, but if you look deeper you can see shadowy figures in the background. I wanted to emphasize these people in the back because im sure Van Gogh painted them with intention, and he was a lonely man during his life who struggled with mental health. I used an alternating rhyme scheme and metaphors to give the poem a natural flow while you read it and have intentional diction.