Love and Cupcakes

Friendship will tell you the half-burnt cupcakes you’ve baked

are delicious.

Envy will say they’re not hungry 

and flattery will go for seconds.

Spiteful will admit they’re disgusting

but gluttony will be content to lick the frosting.

Narcissism will want the recipe to make a better version

shaped like butterflies so they can feel a fleeting kind of love--

the only kind they know.

But family . . .

Family will eat them and optimistically declare

they’ve had worse.

Their right hand will slap you in the face

with an ice pack of truth.

Love can be cold like that.

And that’s the only kind I want.

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4/15/14