'A Scourge Long Foreseen'

By Art of the Diver

Mon, 07 Dec 2015

‘A Scourge Long Foreseen’

Someone needs to be honest

To not embellish, fudge or pretend

Surely facing up to the facts and reality

should never threaten, or offend

Now that bloated bodies have become the norm

there’s only so much that can fit on the screen

While the rest of us choose activity, healthy eating and life

health systems are clogged up, with a scourge long foreseen

I fear our earth must be shrinking

when measured by the rate of how wide people grow

And I just can’t help being concerned when thinking

Soon there’ll be nowhere left for others to go

Oh sure, they say that within every chubby frame

there is a slim person waiting to burst out

from the junk food, the guilt and the shame

Oh please… spare us the thought, the to and the fro

Think before you consider my words too extreme

Of choices made, habits formed with careless disregard

of a child’s diabetic legacy, the weight is not as it seems

While Earth becomes the beast of burden, obesity grows

How hard is it really to get one’s butt every day?

To burn away lazy calorie attitudes, as if you cared

How hard is it really to die prematurely unprepared?

From a simple foolish choice, you refused to let go away?

*~ Pearldiver ~

~ Image Above: Dr Joseph Murray, Renowned Kidney Transplant Pioneer ~