A Chocolate Lover's World

In Hersheyville the visions are replete
with candy-coated, chocolate covered swirl.
The farm-hands work for kisses (life is sweet!)
when Jolly Rancher greets his Sugar Girl.

He brings her cocoa beans and buttercups,
and milk made for a honey-mooner's dream.
The sound of cellophane then interrupts
his dashing, dairy fantasies of cream.

His tears roll down the vat where chocolate boils,
the bubbles melt sweet Sugar's frosted heart.
They fumble as they kiss beneath the foils;
their eyes meet - but they know that they must part.

Poor Jolly never knew another girl
as sweet as Sugar with the chocolate curl. 

Anne Bryant-Hamon
© 1999