Darqx

In the face of bitterness   I have mastered sweetness.    By the end of this day I will have calculated   exact measurements of cream   to wipe clean the face of gravestones. I will have learned to soothe the aching     of windswept hearts,        to break open on my part       like a shell of chocolate     quivering open, full of cream.   I will have learned to love grief      as dearly as my own dream. At the end of my childhood -my dream-          of owning a candy store:       a sweet shop, a bakery….         specializing in the art of the glazed.      The wedding cakes, the brick tarts, memory of a birt