Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Sugar Coated


 

What’s that sweetheart?

A mishmash of words

we thrust together to

convey how intimate

and oh so close we

are with one another.

 

Say again Honey?

As if we forgot their

actual given names in favor

of some sugary platitude

that actually does sort of

express how we feel.

 

Yes Darling.”

Shouted through hallways,

up staircases, from room

to room, these nick-names

and saccharin monikers

echo throughout houses and homes.

 

Sweetie, did you hear me?

We smile and nod with

curious pleasure hearing these

teasing nick-names roll from

the mouths of lovers in the heat of

the moment or warmth of a kiss.

 

Babe, of course.”

Absent is the weight our natural

names carry, so heavily on our

sore and worn shoulders, replaced

playfully with the gentle coos of

pet names from sugary lips.

What did you say baby?”
“Say it again, sexy.”
“Don’t call me Daddy.”
“Papi?”
“No.”



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