Keeps Me Writing

Chocolate cake, chemical reaction

intolerance, allergy - Thursday

is scrapped – right off the map

feeling hungry, angry, depressed

all because I ate that darn

chocolate cake!

Why should I have an allergy

to sour my life? I suppose that

it is to keep worse things at bay

at least I’m not blind or deaf or

too dumb, maybe it’s better to

suffer depression

Than to be the reincarnation of

Helen Keller who was both deaf

and blind – still, I wish I could enjoy

the use of ears and eyes with

a twinkle in my eye

instead of feeling

As if the dogs stole my food

or that the cat dragged me in

or that life has no meaning –

THIS is the scariest of all

losing a hold on existence

cast adrift on the sea

At least, the allergy keeps me

writing, maybe this is another

good thing – or is it?

You be the judge…