Like chocolate cake
but sweeter, somehow
though it isn’t cake at all
like sharing icing with your best friends
Like sugared oranges
sticky and saccharine
too sweet to be healthy
but so satisfying to eat til you’re sick
Like a cavity after orajel
the pain numb
but the taste as well
better, not worse, and quickly getting used to it
Like dancing in the rain
your ears deaf to shouts
of those who tell you
to go inside and dry off
because you’re happy here.
May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 8:07 AM UTC
Like chocolate cake
but sweeter, somehow
though it isn’t cake at all
like sharing icing with your best friends
Like sugared oranges
sticky and saccharine
too sweet to be healthy
but so satisfying to eat til you’re sick
Like a cavity after orajel
the pain numb
but the taste as well
better, not worse, and quickly getting used to it
Like dancing in the rain
your ears deaf to shouts
of those who tell you
to go inside and dry off
because you’re happy here.
May 15th, 2014
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