You Should Have Fruit Named After You

©2013 Wayne Box Miller

I have come to realize you’re so sweet

You should have your own section in produce

Surrounded by fruit on all sides

Making them look better to the eye

But they don’t grow em’ like you

You’re always fresh to death

You’re becoming my favorite flavor

The thought causes me to lose my breath

Like the orange that I love to squeeze

I’ll peel back the layers of your mind

And let the vitamin T engulf me

Hoping I don’t run out of time

I want to take a bite of your apple

Surrounded by your pears

You should have fruit named after you

That I can get anywhere

Cantaloupe must be your cousin

Succulent are your last names

Sweet like strawberries

I’m guessing the taste will probably drive me insane

They say the blacker the berry

But I say the sweeter the T

Is there a pomegranate on earth?

That can possibly compete

Black cherries are jealous

Because you’re one of a kind

You should have a fruit named after you

Watermelon is certainly tryin’

But it’s the one in the mirror

The one I have seen

The one I’ve gotten to know

That is getting to know me

You should have a fruit named after you

Orangnewatermelonappleloupeagranate cherries

Hard to find, the rarest of kind, and 

If you’re lucky, you’ll live to taste it

You should have a fruit named after you

But you already do

When I think of the sweetest fruit

I simply call it…

You