Sunday, 9 May 2021

A burnt toast

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Pandorathon May 10  A burnt toast ruing its plight in poetic language 


I was ready for duty

To be golden and crusty

To bring joy and sustenance

I jumped happy in the toaster 

Fate was awaiting me

The dial was not fitted

To my delicate constitution 

I find myself discarded, left alone,

Burned, rejected, shamed,

To be thrown away, ostracised 

Even rodents won’t accept

A burnt crumb from me

Bitterness is not in fashion. 


Lucette C. Bailliet 

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