Vanilla Cake (please tell me what you think!)

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Open Poetry #32

Vanilla Cake (please tell me what you think!)

rainydaymusic
Junior Member

since 2004-01-14

Posts 26

0 posted 2004-05-30 09:53 PM

VANILLA CAKE

Just sitting there with a slice of cake,
on a fine paper plate.
Frustrated because I couldn’t decide whether
I even wanted it.
Frustrated, because I wanted to write,
and I knew I was going to write about you.

Nothing was coming, so I just sat there,
me and that cake, bored and sad.

I couldn’t stop imagining you were sitting across from me.
You would have been indecisive about
which kind of cake you wanted,
after all, they had five different kinds.
I’d grow impatient while you mulled over the most ridiculous
of decisions, and then finally, thank God, you would have chosen one.

It’s vanilla, even though you hate vanilla.
You’d choose it just because you know you won’t like it.
Still, I would have gladly paid, and then
watched irritated as you complained about your choice.

I’d offer to get you something else, but you’d just keep going.
We’d start arguing over the icing or something less important,
and then I’d swear I’d buy the whole cake and make you eat it
if you didn’t just calm down like a normal person would.

You know, if you here right now,
I could eat this cake in peace.

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

1 posted 2004-05-30 10:24 PM

I think this makes me chuckle. Funny how love is, aye?