Day 12 ~
Hot chocolate is like love
Warm and sweet

Like love, we all have our preferences
You can choose cream or marshmallows
Some prefer refreshing peppermint
Others the burnt intensity of caramel

I love my cocoa dark
Bitterness equaling the sweet
Deepening the flavor until
It encompasses my life, my heart, my all

So too is love
Intense, bitterness mixing with sweet
Strengthened by the life that
Keeps moving it forward

Like hot chocolate
My love is sweet
My heart is warm

Frothy days made
If light and air
Like whipped cream
Temper the bitter depths
Letting the dark
Sigh in relief

I savor each sip
Fearful of losing
Each decadent swallow

And even when my cocoa cools
I would not gain the world
If it meant to lose
Even its most tepid taste

Love, February

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