Lemon Drop

 

Sour, sweet,

You melt with a soft shock

Upon my tongue,

Fulfilling promises winked at me

Before I peeled the crinkling wrapper

From your sunny shine.

I walk into your candy store

A starving, motherless child,

Snatch fistfuls of you

From the brass shelves,

Shove you deep in secret pockets.

For want of you,

I turn to petty crime.

 

                                    Heather Morrison

 

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