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The best brownies recipe

Best Brownies

1/2 a cup of butter (It makes the taste richer,
like the love we shared only days prior)

1 cup white sugar (white, like the dress I wore,
Like the shirt that clung to your frame)

2 eggs (A symbol of creation and birth,
Like the ache in my stomach as I smile at you)

1 table spoon Vanilla Extract (to sweeten the deal,
sweet like the day I met our son, who you never met)

1/2 s cup of unsweetened cocoa powder (dark and bitter,
the world you left behind when you fell asleep)

1 cup all purpose flower (you used to laugh,
when i knocked it everywhere and it covered my soft face)

1/4 tablespoon of salt (To cut the sweetness,
to make a rich life, like the one we should have had)

1/4 tablespoon of baking powder (so they raise,
We should have raised our son together)

Bake until gooey, 
Serve at the wake I try to hold myself together for,
Bitter sweet and gentle,
Gooey and a flavour of home,
Home I should have shared with you,
Your wake,
The end of sweetness.

Copyright © Flynn Bates | Year Posted 2024

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Date: 5/29/2025 12:41:00 AM

Thanks for sharing this. I greet you with the love of the Lord expressed in John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

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