Cake

by E. Marmer
posted Aug 25, 2015

Found at completelydelicious.com/2013/03/southern-coconut-cake.html

As I lay here in search of sleep

And fairy kingdoms far and deep

Within my mind, this stomach pain

Assures me all my efforts vain.

The ache seems proof of my mistake,

Until the vision of that cake

Returns. Tempting aroma fills

My nose, and all my former ills

Are gone. The frosting, white and creamy

With coconut so light and dreamy,

Rolls in my head, as on my tongue

Those thick, sweet waves earlier hung.

They carry me to younger days

When dirty face and piggish ways

Brought simple pleasure. Complex scenes

Now seem made to confuse my means

To happiness. But, with a smile

I recall how I blew off style

And reveled in my piggish sin –

I crammed that luscious mountain in!

Content, I hold my splitting seams

And find the world of gentle dreams.