Without Chocolate [rev] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

I ate everything healthy today - fruit and vegetables &
a boiled egg, but sans chocolate; tried to make up for
its lack by eating sweet jelly - but it can't compensate,
without chocolate life's not worthwhile as nothing else
comes close to satisfactory, not ice-cream, cookies or
cake - nothing fills my heart and head like chocolate

Exorcising chocolate to lose weight's counterproductive,
I eat more to make up for it, but raw carrots and apples
do nothing; without chocolate, my spirit sinks into torpor
and lassitude - and though the world's beautiful after a
shower of rain, when clouds disappear & a golden sun
shines everything into a green fairyland - and I feel

Joyous & energised - its without chocolate & merely a
short-lived victory; so with tonight's no-chocolate-delight
I can't sleep; a state of affairs for addressing tomorrow,
nothing else can keep my inner gyroscope steady within
transparent glory, nothing else can take me to one of the
better alternate universes - & how did life come to this -

How did I forsake my love for the wonder of chocolate, it's
pure masochism - a deprivation resembling death: my idea
of heaven is having a hot chocolate fondue - and here I am,
without the prerequisite for spiritual survival - this is no life,
this is a descent into grey where thoughts cannot soar….