The Bitter Taste of Candy

February 13, 2019
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Your love was the water to my parched lips
The soil to my garden
The coffee to my early morning
The candy to my sweet tooth
The everything to my everything
I loved the way your mouth curved up into a perfect smile
The sound of happiness when you came home
The feeling of your arms around me
The sweet taste of your laugh on my tongue
The smell of coffee from your favorite café down the street
And although it’s easier to convince myself
that you never loved me back
I think you did
at one point
But you stopped one day
The day when I went from being the sole person you saw
to being just “one of them”
The day when my candied lips
became as bitter as the coffee you loved to drink
on dates at your favorite café where we never spoke
I tried to make my lips taste like icing
but to you they were as cold and flavorless as ice
You stared at them with blank eyes
that looked through me to the warm laughs of the past
instead of at me
where you would just see the empty stares of the present
I tried to hold on but that only made me fall faster
My white knuckles laughed at me and said
“girl, your time with him is up”
I tried to keep the sweet taste in my mouth
long after the candy had dissolved
When in reality all I could taste was you
and your bitter coffee
holy crap dude this is so good!!! *snap snap snap*