Lime, Chocolate, and Tears

Flavors of a Fractured Past

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salted caramel tears, trickle down (like molasses, slow, persistent)
she watches (but doesn’t see) the swirls of coffee in her cup
the bitter jolt, so much like joy that it hurts to swallow
each sip, a memory steeped in blackest night