Farewell delicious citrus companion,

For three years we shared our breakfast table,

Breaking the night's fast together as one,

And now, you gone, and I, miserable.

 

Three-fold were your sweet sunshine hued fruit rinds,

Melded too with sugars from cane filled isles.

Our love connection, forged by taste and mind,

Child of copper-bottomed pot, yielding smiles.

 

On your empty jar my eyes now alight,

Glazed remnants, windswept oceanic smears,

A cartograph of gold tinted delights,

The vacuum you leave fills me with tears.

 

How crushing now, the thought of undressed toast,

Come the breaking day, I'll miss you the most.

 

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