Little Boy Eating A Chocolate Cake Poem by Tanya Delanor

I wonder what you'll be
Eventually.
But for now all you want is
that cake
Before somebody gets to it first.
It has to be that one,
The one at the front.
Not the one behind,
That one doesn't look
Quite so good for some reason.
Maybe it got a bit squished in the tin.
Maybe it doesn't have so many chocolate
Drops on the top.
I don't know.
All I know is that you were staring at the cake.
It's actually a muffin, but who cares,
It still tastes good.

You got your cake,
And you are sitting there by the café window,
Chatting away to your mum,
In between biting off lumps of delicious choccy
sponge.
God, you are enjoying every sticky mouthful.
I wonder what you'll be, little boy
Eating the chocolate cake,
And if you will remember this day when
You are old, and tell your grandchildren
How good that cake was.