Candy Man's Delights

MAG 105

 

 image: epic mahoney

 Photograph courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales on Blogger

He doesn't come

In a stretch  limousine

To wait in front

Of a bright neon lit door

What you now see

Having taken his sweets

Is a man with a bike

Psychedelic greens and baby pinks

You want to go higher

Further than ever before

Tasting the magic of treats

Candy man's white sherbets and sweets

Every fibre inside awash

With untold delight

As the man with the goodies

Leaves pushing his drugs and his bike

When you come down

From dazzling heights

The colours all faded

The candy man who can, no longer in sight

(With apologies to Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Roald Dahl and Sammy Davis, Jr.!!!)

Barbara M Lake ©

Trinidad WI

February 2012