and if you don't know cinnamon

It will come as mysterious as cinnamon,

and if you don’t know cinnamon
it may present itself to you
as apple pie, or mulled wine
- and you will remember,
there must have been times,
there must have been - times
in cinnamon flavours and allspice
when nutmeg raindrops dark outside
felt like gentle fingers stroking your hair,
until what wasn‘t known becomes bolder,
asserting itself in unrecognisable moments;
and unrecognised, will leave
replacement raindrops, the darkness, the window,
and many other objects of habit,
living in them what wasn't known
until there was cinnamon.