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Soggy Cereal
February 15, 2019
Little wheat flakes in a bowl,
golden and crunchy.
Freeze dried strawberries
as light and crisp as chips.
As milk is dumped on their heads,
the reality sinks in.
Those little wheat flakes
won’t ever be the same again.
Crinkly crinkle as the air escapes
to be replaced by liquid.
Their limp bodies pile
until the spoon arrives.
Those freeze dried strawberries,
at first so crisp and red,
now drowned by milk.
They float on the milk.
Silver spoon brings these souls
to the yawning mouth,
so sustaining.
Never the same again.
Sweet milk, filled with sugar
extracted from its victims,
is the last one standing.
Yet again.
© Dawn Grace R., Barrigada, Guam
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I wanted to write a poem to submit to a contest, and I was inspired by cereal. This poem was written while I ate breakfast before school, and it took a darker tone than expected. But hey, I like dark- we live half of our life in darkness.
"Soggy Cereal" can represent various situations and ideas; take what you would like from it.