Candy Kisses

When your hands are small
it is easy to wrap
your fingers
around a candy bar
that you didn’t pay for.

When your fingers
have grown for forty years
guilt can become too heavy
to take.

No scarlet A,
just a white O
around your finger,
the shame of your mistake.

Till a new temptation
melts your loneliness,
and stolen moments
are all you desire.

O,
how uplifting.