Not Sitting Well

Certain foods you used to love
Don’t sit well any more.
Our stomachs can’t digest, with ease,
Some things they did before.

So it is best avoiding them
And sticking with each meal
Or snack which to your taste buds
And digestive tract appeal.

The same applies to friendships.
Some relationships, once good,
No longer make us feel the way
You’d hope a friendship would.

Eliminating foods or friends
Means that much less to choose
But if we love what we have left
We don’t have much to lose.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Mcleod Avatar
March 6, 2022 at 10:32 AM
Funny how we isolate ourselves from things as we get older. Health comes at the price of abandonment. I wonder if isolation is key to growth. Trevor
Krutsinger Avatar
March 4, 2022 at 12:13 PM
I refuse to give up my spicy foods; much to my stomach and esophagus' dismay!
Leffanta Avatar
March 3, 2022 at 10:17 AM
Another winner! Enjoyed! Aloha!
Dietrich Avatar
March 2, 2022 at 9:22 PM
the last verse is so well said. Love this one
Horsman Avatar
March 2, 2022 at 8:46 PM
Mmm, interesting take, ilene, i'm applying this wonderful poem to so much more, in fact its speaks of the whole world to me as at this moment in time. Again love it. to my favourites.
Cunningham Avatar
March 2, 2022 at 1:37 PM
A lot of wisdom and truth in your words Ilene. Tom
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