NAUGHTY CHOCOLATES

Wow, chocolates...!!!
What a flavour for the season mates!
Wah, that age-old aphrodisiac,
Aristocratic cocoa!
That deliquesce delicacy inside
the exotic wrappers --
KitKat's, Mars Bar's, Bournvile's, Cadbury's, 

and many others...
But only Pan Pasand's half-a-rupee
candies to our honour 
in the erstwhile indigenous India.
Yet, that time, they were all flair 
and flavour...
And on a salient day 
I could manage to get one 

from the village store.
And that nut-size candy really
did wonder
being fifty-fifty between me and 
my adolescent lover,
and sealed our love 

till she did share a KitKat 

with a boy in Bhubaneswar...

So dear, do put your Valentine
in a strongly choco-filled bar, 

because behind you 

are lurking valorous Casanovas 

with flavorous aphrodisiacs 

in their adrenaline 

for the libidinous ambush
and adventure...

©️ N P Samal