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Caramel
May 12, 2022
I drank
caramel hot chocolate,
hidden away, for
worst-of-worst days–
I swallowed the sweetness
like it was salve.
I poured
caramel like plaster.
plug up the cracks
in the brittle;
veins of
congealed amber and
bitterness’s brown sugar,
intertwined.
I pushed
perfection into caramel.
held it under, drowned
in sugar’s honey;
it bobbed to the top.
it always does.
I wound
caramel like thread.
I licked my wounds,
savored the taste.
bittersweet is growing on me.
I wrapped my failures
in the burnished thread
to protect the sugar scabs.
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I wrote this on the heels of a particularly stinging rejection, and my idea to cope with that sting by drinking some hot chocolate I had stored away. It was caramel flavored, which inspired the main motif of this piece.