Burnt Cookies by Sophia Zhang (15, Illinois)

"Cookies on Rack" by Vitaliano Araújo

None of us will ever possess enough
            bittersweet cacao-sugar
power
to satisfy every person.
Yet we still break off pieces of our souls     like cookies
hoping that there are enough chocolate chips to bring about peace.
  so we melt
      alight in fire,
                         burnt butter tickling
                                                     our remains.

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