Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Up close and personal


By: Izeria Hargrove
(a.k.a: Izzy)

This cookie
It looks like my old neighbor.
The cracks,
They represent his wrinkles.
“This cookie is the
death of me.”
He probably didn’t
know it would…
…kill him.

It smells like
A week old brownie
Maybe one by
Me
A strange aroma
A mix of
Chocolate chip
But also of
An oven.

There is a soft texture.
And a strange taste.
After I tore the cookie
In half
I saw the moon.
Really.
One of those
commercial moons
with a ugly
smiley face.

Sometimes I wonder
Is this how he felt?
You know…?
When he died?
At peace
Or
Something like that.

It makes you think
What is we gone
Do when we
You know
Pass into the unknown region?
Cuz you know
Even the simplest thinhs
Make you think of
Your greatest fear.


That’s just when
You get up close
And personal

I mean think of it
My neighbor died
Eating a really good
Cookie.

Imagine: a sweet smell
Drifting through the kitchen
You just made
Cookies
You let it simmer down
And go to eat.
You take a bite
And
Try to swallow
Its stuck.
You rush to the fridge
For some of
Your mothers most bitter
Batch of lemonade
You raise the glass to your lips
Only to collapse.
You were too late.
Such a sweet, sweet death.

At least there was no pain.


But really. I'm serious. I was standing in the shower one day and was thinking... Am I real? Or am so fake? Do your ever think of day a wonder….are you real?
I was just singing a song and it got me thinking,
after I die what happens to me?
That’s just my personal extraction from a cookie.
 Such a thing like this can end in death and after that where do you go? Heaven?
Hell?
 Are places like this even real?
 You’ve heard stories from people
but in the documentary it seems so fake.
 “Heaven is for real” isn’t a real life story.
It’s pretty much
Based off of what people think they saw.
 Unless you went to heaven with a camera and
 Showed me the great beyond, I won’t believe it.