Dark Chocolate Is Too Sweet For Me

The Day Dark Chocolate Became Too Sweet For Me

As a child, all was so sweet

That's all that ever appealed to me
Lollipops and gumdrops,
Cookies and juice,
A day without sweetness

Is a day I'd lose.

Sweetness seemed to never have a cap.

Though, my mother had told me to stop

Or my stomach would rumble and rap
Still, I'd indulge, never getting sick,

Until one day

I learned there was such a thing as

"Too much".

It was a day of joy, laughter and giving,

I was given the gift

Of free decision.
Cookies and brownies and other sweet treats

Proved to be too much for me.

Throughout the day
I filled with empty calories,

Only to bring it up into a bucket,

I was now vacant of glee.

This happened more than once
Because I never seem to learn

That sweetness has it's limits
And it can always turn.

Just the other night
 I was mindlessly munching a bit of dark chocolate,
Bitter but loving.

At the time it was nothing
Until the clock struck midnight
And then, I was puking.

That was the night the world

Became a darker gray, 
And that was the night dark chocolate

Became too sweet for me.