Sweet 'n Sour

[Delta40]

We meet for lunch
at a Thai cafe
and order the chef's special.
Stir fried intestines
and my stomach churns
as I try to tell you
what is on my mind.
How whole chunks
seem to be missing
between us.
Everything I try to hold
together,
slips through my chopsticks
to land on my plate.

[Jerrybaldy]

A single effective metaphor. It needed more courses but effective all the same.

[Delta40]

Lol. You mean like we never made it to dessert?

[Haunted]

Sweet and sour indeed. The venue and food/utensil details all work towards the metaphor. Next time I break up with someone, I'll pick a Thai restaurant.

[Hawkman]

When it comes to break-ups Arnie does it best: BANG! "Consider that a divorce." :D

[PrinceMyshkin]

Inferring, as one must, the depth of anguish the narrator feels, this is a bloody masterpiece of self-containment.

[Delta40]

Thanks Prince - wrong poem - but thanks