Friday Flash 55, "A Kiss"

A Kiss

Your puckered lips

obligingly touch a tart

lemon-like kiss to mine.

I run my tongue

over the sourness

while symbolism

stabs my heart.

Such bitterness now,

love unsweetened.

Succulent strawberry kisses

now replaced with

acerbic, harsh utterances.

Our once ripe romance

now rancid, tainted.

Slowly I close the door

behind you and whisper,

"Goodbye".

by Margaret Bednar (Art Happens -3/3/2011)

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This is for Tess Kincaid's "Magpie Tales".  I'm going to also submit this to "The March Challenge". On this day in 1847, inventor Alexander Graham Bell was born and the challenge word for today is "communication".  I have reflected upon what can be said (and revealed) with a kiss.   This is also for "Friday Flash 55" - tell a story in 55 words or less. This was originally posted to my photography/poetry blog, but I copied it to here for those who follow only this blog.