Minor Arcana I by Anna Leah de Leon

Queen of Cups
of teacups and coffeecups

She should be
an ocean instead-
always trying to
reach that moon,
her child.

But sometimes
she just lets the tea
overflow
and the coffee spill all over
those white lace tablecloths.

Because even if she is Queen,
she also runs out of cups.

*Taken from Filipina I Poetry, Drama, Fiction by Women Writers in Media Now 1984