Bitter Almonds

the taste of bitter almonds

 reminds, as Gabrial said, 

of unrequited love

 it sits on the tongue for a long time

leaving you

with no choice.

acceptance, like grief,

dawns slowly

but surely

and, wary you get

 of trying another 

lest it tastes the same

bitter, 

acrid.

unrequited love

is love too

just like bitter almond 

is almond too.

over ripe blueberries

 i muse,

meet the same fate 

sorted from the good ones 

and discarded

love

almonds 

blueberries 

have their uses

only when good!