How hard is it
To disregard sugar rich chocolate treats
Near the front door
Hard
Damned hard
For a recovering chocoholic
Nuts and seeds
Fill in
Second stringers off the bench
Playing over their heads
Thump
Thump
Thump
Another knock
Thanks god, another handful depleted
Take more
Leave me no temptations
But then again
A test of resolve
Is a test worth taking
If I can overcome that
I might be able to overcome
Other foibles
Weaknesses
Flaws
And seek redemption
In your love
David Trudel © 2012
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Extreme weather
Is it just me or does anyone feel that there is something missing in the messages of concern regarding the super storm clobbering the eastern seaboard? I’m thinking particularly about the presidential campaign and the issue of climate change. I mean we’ve had wildfires and drought, tornados and floods of biblical proportions over the past few years yet everybody just seems to want to turn a blind eye and cross their fingers and hope it doesn’t happen again. Isn’t it time that mainstream corporate America, and the powers behind the candidates, finally admit that climate change is indeed real, that weather events like this one are going to become more and more frequent and even more intense in the future. Shouldn’t we be mitigating the worst of the potential risks now, before the very infrastructure of our civilization is damaged or destroyed?
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