Analysis of Grandma's Recipes



For decades.
And the ones privy,
To know the secret of grandma's recipes.
Would have never disclosed,
Those secrets to expose.
Knowing them to be top secret.
Confidential.
Kept to keep that way.
Within the family and not to share or discuss,
With others to sell.
For the purpose to diminish,
Grandma's stuff...
To corrupt the strength,
Of the entire family.

But a greeding to deceive,
One's own selfish need...
To feed a desire to pocket a buck or two.
Not only is that a betrayal.
But also an obvious act of treason too!
So severe to corrupt others in the family.
Unconscious of what the value of the treasure.
Sold to sell to use against them.
With a believing their stupidity,
Has no consequences to pay.
That one day proves.
An undoing of a stable foundation.
Structured, built and meant to keep,
Thieves away from the kitchen.
With intentions to destroy,
The strength of a family.
Gone to no longer consider,
A family that was built for decades.
On recipes,
Secretly kept to keep the family great!

'Are you talking about,
An established undoing of a democracy?
A family of once faithful believers.
Or...
Deceivers within the family,?
Only seeking their own selfish needs to feed?'

'But which best describes your depiction?'

Well...
Grandma was not one to discriminate.
All her children she loved and treated equally.
And grandma,
Was never known to be suspicious.
Yet...
It would break her heart if she knew,
One child...
Had skills to lie and deceive,
The rest of the family to believe...
Recipes grandma collected over decades,
Had more worth...
If sold to foreigners to sell!

'So...
Is this or is this not about grandma?
The generations that followed.
Or the influence that feeds,
A selfishness to spread throughout...
The country to manifest the self serving,
Of an unconscious greed?'

Yes!
One spoiled seed,
Can destroy an entire growing crop.
O a family feeding on weeds,
To believe this to be mentally nutritional.

'What has any of this,
Have to do with grandma?
Or...
One's family?'

A healthy democracy,
Is only as strong as its recipe.
Once that is gone...
So too goes the 'strength,
Of thefamily it serves!

'Ooohhh.
So...
You are speaking metaphorically?'

Whichever way you prefer the message,
It will still offend...
Those who defend their fiction to delude.
Many fear truth to face,
Is too much of a risk for them to take.


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Characters 2,355
Words 500
Sentences 59
Stanzas 11
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Lines Amount 83
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Written on September 02, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 02, 2022

Modified on March 14, 2023

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