Toffee Problems

The sinking feeling when

I know how it will end

Lingers

Like toffee

Stuck hard in my throat

Sweetness overwhelms

Burning me to a shell

Hollow

Yet melting still

It follows me to gloat

Fingers tight on my ears

I pretend not to hear

Cloying

Attachment

Dripping around my neck

If I could find a key

I'd bury it in me

And twist

And tear it

Until the chains were wrecked

Sugar shards would fall

I'd be free from what all

My heart

Demanded

Not knowing it was blind

Beneath a sweet veneer

Glaze coating so dear

Vision

Distorted

Unable now to find

A handhold in glue

That toffee poured from you

Made sweet

To keep me

I won't be crystallized