The Perfect Pairing

Too clingy, but I like how you do

The way you stick and hold on makes me feel wanted

Your worst quality is my favorite

Try to balance you out with something a little more sweet

Pleasing to the general public's palette

Provides a little more moisture, some tang to accompany your legume paste perfection

Perfect pairing

I'm addicted to the way you harmonize,

Each creating an insatiable desire for more of the other.

A craving too strong to resist,

A burning ache in my soul that only you can satisfy.

The questions some debate are missing the point of your beauty,

Your perfection is not due to these specifics,

But rather to your general way of being,

Regardless of the way you've dressed up for the day,

Your accessories are superfluous information when it comes to knowing just how amazing you are,

Those details only serve to obscure the true purpose you serve on this earth,

To bring harmony to an otherwise chaotic and flavorless world.

Whether there are seeds in the jam or a jelly is instead preferred.

If the peanut butter is crunchy or smooth, creamy or chunky, some say is make or break,

But I say my day would be enhanced either way compared to how it would have been going previously without that nut butter in it.

Is the bread toasted? All the better.

The spreads applied before the final round of crispification so that the golden appearance is enveloping the hot gooey fillings: thing of my dreams.

Soft, uncrusted bread is the way to go other times,

And if you're like my sister,

You'll dip it in milk, saturate it til soggy,

And that will satiate your

Appetite for the delicacy.

I put peanut butter on both sides.

The thicker the better.

It may wind up

Sticking to the roof of my mouth, but I like it.

It's a guilty pleasure about which I feel no remorse.

I can nearly feel it there now

And my mouth begins to water at the thought.

The crispy sound that cascades when I take that first bite of toasted perfection,

It's the symphony that plays in my dreams

When I close my eyes and am lucky enough to be relieved of the nightmare that plagued me when I was conscious of my lack of the classic sandwich that has ruled the lunchbox for decades.

The peanut butter and jelly is so cool it's known by all those who know it by a nickname.

What other sandwich can that be said of?

Pb&J, you brighten my day.