Dear Cookie With Frosted Eyes Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

Ours is a love supreme
Laid out with a floured
Rolling pin and cutting
Board where you were
Shaped with a cookie
Cutter from a land
Called Never Never
Land for even though
There are many of you
You are the only one
That looks at me with
Frosted eyes and
Make my eyes sparkle
For yours glint with
A mystery of making
That could only have
Come from the blessings
Of the gods.

I laid you out on the
Baking tray of time
And knew the outcome
Would have an impact
That would fan out smells
Into the air and have
The neighbors wondering
What was cooking in our
Kitchen.

Now you look at me with
Rosy cheeks near this
Friendly Santa who laughs
A bearded smile at the
World. For the two of you
Are going to be the
Best presents I give to
The world this Xmas.

Cookie with frosted eyes
Leave our house knowing
There is only one I gave
The power to be a blessing
To the world. For only you
Are my cookie cut out on the
Cutest cutter that leaves no
Clutter. So clean a job did
I do that all the dough
Is gone so that I know you are
Worth the highest bid on
The auction table.

I do not want to let you go
But as life goes what you love
You must let go for years have
Proved that to let you go on
Your way create new worlds where
There can be not one but many
Like you.

I know you will bring joy to
The world for yours is a story
That began in a bag of flour
Grown on the prairies of our
Land where you outshone the
Brightest star for you shot out
With a line that rode beyond
Drawn high up in the sky.

Come back and know the cookie
Jar is always ready to receive
You for it will not be the same
Without you for you are a cookie
Of a kind not know.