Do you know what it’s like to constantly sabotage your own happiness with incessant worry? I do. Do you know know what it’s like to constantly wonder what in the world there is to love about you? I do. Do you know how it feels to be so afraid to love someone you’ve given your trust? I do.
Every word Every moment Clouded with doubt and uncertainty Filled with questions Silent and unspoken Paralyzed by potential What you don’t know can’t hurt you Like unrequited love
You are a failure Crippled with fear Scared you’ll say the wrong thing And push them away There is no doubt There is no mistake You are filled with desperation Begging to be loved Wishing you could show More than just this facade
Pathetic The way you throw away your soul To ease the loneliness The way you put in so much For an opportunity that will never be more than a maybe
You’re only an option Until something better comes along You’ve never been a priority So why would that change now?
You’re not special or wonderful In any sort of way You are human Flawed in every sense
So why do you keep putting others first When they can’t even do the same?
Why How Do you not learn from your past pain?
Don’t you know by now You’re just not good enough for anyone A momentary distraction Is all you’ll ever be
So why? Why do you remain so naive? Why do you keep giving so much When you have nothing left inside?
Because I know what it’s like to hurt To be burned And to be without To be the one broken by trauma To lose everything I held dear
But everyone deserves to smile No matter how brief, fleeting, or short-lived Everyone deserves to know what it feels to truly be loved And to experience true happiness
The world may be cruel and cold But that doesn’t mean I have to be If I can make one person smile If I can make one person laugh If I can give joy to those around me Then I’ve done what I was made to do
Because no matter the pain No matter the cost I will always love With all my heart
Weekends start on Friday night. Good weekends start with food, but the best are the ones the precede a two week vacation. Dinner was at Cucina (for which I thought I had already done a review, but apparently not; that said, the review, if I did one, would read very similarly to Teatro) and then we had a brunch date at Diner Deluxe.
I hadn’t been to Diner Deluxe since that one year at Christmas with my paternal cousins. My first experience wasn’t a great one. We were running late, the place didn’t take reservations and the line ups were out the door. Plus the food wasn’t that good. When we walked in on Saturday, it was practically empty. Given that it was 2 pm, that would probably explain a thing of two.
I ordered their Pork Belly Eggs Benny, their daily special, with a Breakfast Poutine and Blackcurrant Spritzer and my date had the BBQ Pulled Pork Hash, something he had had before, with Phil and Sebastian coffee.
The Pork Belly Eggs Benny consists of an English muffin topped with tomato, arugula, pork belly, a poached egg, arugula, and a basil Hollandaise, while the breakfast poutine consisted of Quebec cheese curds melted over rosemary hash browns and basil Hollandaise. I actually love Hollandaise so much it’s a problem. I would probably would drink it if that wasn’t gross (just kidding, I would not drink it, but it was very delicious). Hollandaise usually is kind of heavy, but this was not the case here. On that note, I’ve never had a basil Hollandaise. The subtle herbiness was a nice twist to use rather than gravy. Though I requested medium for a temperature on the eggs, the temperature was not consistent on each of them. One of them was nearly completely cooked (that gel like consistency on the yolk) and the other was gel around the edges and runny in the centre. I’m not good at poaching eggs myself (except in the microwave apparently and even then there’s like a 50% chance the egg explodes and ends up all over the inside of the microwave).
The BBQ Pulled Pork was equally good. Like I’ve said a hundred times, sweet and savoury will always get me. The smoke was subtle in the bite I had which made it (thankfully) not too overbearing. I do like a good BBQ but like everything else, it needs to be balanced; nothing in a dish should ever overpower the other elements in it.
Both were a good portion size and neither of us managed to finish it.
I’m happy that I had the chance to come back here under less hectic circumstances because this experience was significantly better than my last.
Generally speaking, I go to breakfast/brunch places, my go-to items on the menu are the Eggs Benny as my philosophy is usually to order something that I’m not capable of making at home. As mentioned, I’ve tried my fair share of poaching eggs and they’re very hit or miss and I’m very particular about my food, if you didn’t get that already, haha. I’ve also had pretty bad luck with making Hollandaise sauces – they usually split or end up too runny. My favourite Bennies are the Truffled Squash from OEB, the Pork Milanese from Vero, and this one is up there. I hope they have plans to make this a permanent item on their menu because the ones on their menu currently, while they sound good, don’t grab me the way “pork belly” grabs me. Also, the other thing I like doing at brunch is ordering a sweet breakfast item (like pancakes or a fancy French toast) for the table to share. I do this for two reasons: one, I can’t finish a whole sweet dish on my own and two, I love variety.
I’d give my experience a 3.75 and definitely come back.
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