Just Desserts

By A.E. Bayne

Desserts,
(a refuge!)
With vanilla ice cream,
(a fantasy.)

Chocolate Mousse
to spoon over aches served chilled with homemade whipped cream.

(My thin skin an)
Apple Crisp
served warm to would be tormentors.

Pecan Pie,
to coat my ego served warm to would be friends.

Key Lime Pie,
a high, served chilled with homemade whipped cream
over guilt and failed resolution.

Oatmeal-Honey Chocolate Chip Cookies,
a curative response served warm with would be mother-love.

Peanut Butter-Chocolate Silk Pie,
(my last resort,)
served chilled with homemade whipped cream over diminished self-esteem.