<Prompt 10:  Incorporate sweetness into your poem>

“Hata tamu hukinai.”  Swahili proverb

It’s just that too much
is actually worse
than not enough,
you know?

It didn’t used to be this way.
If it had sugar on it,
I’d eat it even
if it set my teeth on edge,
even if it gave me
a raw, thumping headache.

But sweetness has a way
of covering up the real deal,
squelching the true flavor
in its bid for domination.

Search for subtleties
and suddenly
sweetness doesn’t satisfy.

Gratitude List:
1.  Ellis humming hymn fragments here beside me while he reads The Way Things Work.
2.  A brilliant blue-green fish.  The children claim that they can hear him talking to them.  He’s a Betta, so that’s his name.
3.  Wise decisions
4.  Four-part harmony
5.  Prodigal love

May we walk in Beauty.