I savour life
It’s bittersweet
Like chocolate
True chocolate
A bite of laughter
Melts in my mouth
Cells dancing this body alive
Laughter fades
to silent, vibrant
momentary memory
Gone
but joy remains, like a spring
bubbling
And a trickle of lament
for the absence of the unlasting
Like
chocolate
Bittersweet
Do you ever listen
to the candlelit silence at night -
when the house speaks in creaks
and groans of the Earth
snoring and growing a dream
of tomorrow’s sunlit play?
To me that’s the time
to savour the body’s nectar
And quietly
remember the flavour of today, now gone
When I had today on my tongue
I twirled like a child
Wild
Drunk on the moment’s delight
Forgetting the coming of night
The melting away of the light
When it’s gone, do I throw a tantrum
Writhe and kick my feet
Scream and gnash my teeth?
No.
I’m still me.
And life is bittersweet.
When I eat a piece of chocolate
real chocolate that tastes like the land
and the farmer’s loving hand
It’s bittersweet
I savour life
and
for a moment
I understand.