Birthday Cake Flavored
It doesn’t taste
like birthday cake
unless
it tastes like
wax and smoke,
the drippings and
the drifting,
the wishes soaked
into icing
like an echo.
It doesn’t taste
like birthday cake
unless
it tastes like
wax and smoke,
the drippings and
the drifting,
the wishes soaked
into icing
like an echo.
I hadn’t thought about it, but it’s true, the smell and taste of wax and smoke makes it a birthday cake. Nice observation of sensory experience and the symbols we attach to it.
How true! And how wonderful for you to put it down in words like this! I love the echo. And I can both taste and smell the wax and smoke. Nicely done!
All birthdays need a little wax and smoke to help us come back to earth after living a full 24 in our own day.