My Chocolate Sin

I had too much fun with  Mary's Mixed Bag Challenge at Real Toads, "Let's Go To The Movies. I think just writing it made my blood sugar go up. Please visit Real Toads to see the other poet's responses to Mary's challenge. I used the movie Chocolat for my inspiration.

A church and a candy shop,

denial and temptation,

Tranquility seduced by chocolate.

A temptress stirs a village

wearing an apron and wielding a spoon.

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Chocolate is my serpent,

it hisses with its aroma,

it tempts with its taste.

Chocolate’s addiction

lures me into its sweet web

to be consumed by the confection drug.

I seek a confession booth

to speak those two words,

“Never again.”

My confession dishonest,

I say the words to receive

a moment’s absolution.

Cast from diet’s Eden

I deny the cocoa bean’s control,

my soul lost to my chocolate sin.

©Susie Clevenger 2012