You Made Candy Less Sweet (Poem by Marysa Writes)

During a time of sugar-coated promises

and sweet-toothed grins,

you were a bag of sour gumdrops.

You produced puckered lips

and friendly laughs

until the burns kicked in at your bite.

You gave away pieces of you

until all that remained

were bloody tongues and chaffed lips.

During this time of sugar-coated promises

and sweet-toothed grins,

you were a bag of sour gumdrops,

good only in moderation.