Party Candy

There, at the bottom of a household platter

Topped off with a variety of brightly coloured candy

Lies the one that was just reserved for me;

Though it would take me a while to find it.

Is it green or is it blue?

Orange-scented, grapefruit flavoured?

Is it bright red, as to catch my eye

Right when I first glance at it?

“Tell me something! Give me a clue!”

But the rainbow candy don’t say as they do.

“One’s for you, and not but one,

If you find it, then it’s yours!”

Do I dare, then, take and try them all?

Knowing that whoever else comes after me

Might cry and scream and weep

At the last opportunity that I’ve just taken from them?

I reached for one, and as I ate it,

I changed my mind, and hear it screaming.