The Conquering of Candy Land

I once lived in a better place

made out of candies and sticky things,

sparkling sugar strings and little jellybeans,

and picking tasty flowers

I once lived in a better place

Chocolate flakes and soft fruit chewies

flavored crystals and things so gooey

and kissing them for hours

I once lived in a better place

until black nasty millipedes

swarming hordes of centipedes

overwhelmed us with their powers,

climbing up the sweetened towers

and dropping in thick showers

 

They're in my hair

They're in my hands

In-between my fingers and eating up my candy land

 

I once lived in a better place

It was overwhelmed and eaten up

They came, they conquered, they didn't stop

My confectionery is completely gone

I once lived in a better place

They dried out all of the ginger pop

And consumed the entire candy corn crop

They even ate the very dawn

I once lived in a better place

until it fell to crumbs all around my feet

laid to waste by a black, creeping fleet

of flies and ants with stingers and wings

Devoured it all and ate everything

With the worst of pincers and stings

 

I have my hair

I have my hands

I have myself

And nothing else but what once was a candy land.

 

Reviews

[Wildecat]

I grew up playing the board game Candy Land, this brougt back some pleasant memories. Nice write.