Taste Poem by Marijke McKinney

Rented times leave your ambition
Trying to swallow what’s been swallowed
Striving for the seconds let go
Dried flowers look beautiful to you

The past is your only friend
How you chewed it right up
Taste and earn your way in
Before things become rotten

Icicle frozen in position
I see the tip of you falling
You’re going to crack open
If you don’t melt the forgotten

You’re the only living proof
No one else believes you
Erase yourself from this time chart
Tomorrow will arise

Taste and earn your way in
It won’t last long