I have let the honey flow through me in golden waves , like a thick ocean Nobody tells you that sweetness can also be brutal There is no healing in the sort of kindness you are forced to give It is pouring salt on a wound and calling it a bandage I have shown the sugar the pores of my skin and allowed each grain to rain out of me I looked like the eye of a snow storm for weeks The blue-black throb of my unappreciated heart has stopped, but I still feel pinches as I wake up That's when a person knows that time does not heal all maladies nor fix all calamities We are not meant to be honey, all-natural and forever sweet Not stevia, unhealthy and artificial Our hearts shouldn't beat for the entire world Just our own selves We must rid ourselves of those who don't see our goodness and those who don't see our badness Because we are a melting *** of humanness and a missing ingredient is fatal