Explore Urna’s poem, in Different Truths, which compares love to a salted Caramel stuffed Nutella cookie, highlighting the unexpected nuances and delicate balance in chaotic moments of connection.

Salted Caramel Stuffed Nutella Cookie

Some days, I sulk. Some days, I whine.
Some days, I pick up a silly fight,
that loses its teeth in
3 minutes, 23 seconds
 
On other days, I shower you with childlike kisses.
On yet other days, I sit as close to your rib cage,
as I humanly can. So that my brokenness can
heal itself in the warm fire of your soul.
 
Bask awhile in the snug, toasty glow
of your love. Your embers burning away
all that needs to burn away.
All that doesn’t serve me anymore.
 
My love for you, then, is a
Salted Caramel Stuffed Nutella Cookie
I have to devour hungrily. Forgetting
all my convent-bred table manners.
 
A little salty at the edges. A little overbaked at
the base. Yet, warm, mushy, moist, soulful in the center.
Breaking, crumbling, melting, gratifying, satiating.
All at one gluttonous, impulsive go.
The gooey Nutella, sprinkled with salt,
gently filling up the hungry, gaping holes in my soul.
 
The Salted Caramel, clipping off the
cloying sweetness of Nutella. The Nutella,
softening the spiky sharpness of Salted Caramel.
The yin and yang, watchdogs of each other’s excesses.
Reminding me of a tricky, tightrope walk
called love, I suppose.

First published in WriteandBeyond.com, August 2020.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Urna Bose

Urna Bose is an award-winning advertising professional, writer, poet, editor, and reviewer. Her poetry has gone viral, globally. She won ‘The Enchanting Editor Award 2019’, from the Telangana Poetry Forum, and the ‘Women Empowered – Scintillating Creative Impactful – Feminine Power Inspiration Award 2020’. And the prestigious Nissim International Prize for Poetry, 2021. As the Deputy Editor for Different Truths, Urna devotes her time to the ‘Poet 2 Poet’ column.