#Octpowrimo day 5

I wrote this poem on 10/4/2018… and it is true that I did give up all sweets 12 years ago on 10/4/2006. I remember the date because it was 10/4 in CB radio language…“over and out” on sweets because I had been eating sweets like a crazy person.  It is also true I didn’t eat sweets for 2 years and that I’m now back to sweets/crazy status.  So 10/4/2018 I gave up eating sweets for as long as I can.

I gave up eating sweets

I gave up eating sweets

A dozen years ago

For two years, absolutely none

Completely, nil, zero

…

Then how did it happen

Over the course

I’m back heavy on it

I need a divorce

…

One where I’m keeping

The pots and the pans

But it gets the mixer

And the cupcake stand

…

I hope I can leave it

Forever this time

I really don’t love its

Consuming my mind

…

It taunts and it teases

And whines its “oh pleases”

Through binge worthy

Cringe worthy mountains of eat

…

It’s all or it’s nuthin

Not even a muffin

Not even just one little bite

I bid thee my sweetie a “final” goodbye.

…

~Julie Robinson