Garbage Cans



As difficult as controversies,
Can be to dismiss them or believe.
Our bodies blessed to get and receive.
Are not meant to be used as garbage cans.
To put in our mouths to choose to eat.
With this done to our stomachs,
Left to digest, dispose and leave...
While we accept,
Nothing but emptied are our stomachs left.

We may not notice the effects of toxins,
Sitting as if forgotten yet remain...
Looking for ways to create poisons.
Without hint or clue,
They intend to addict and disease us too!
If we allow not to clean out,
What remains of the garbage.

Some caring may be aware of this.
To notice the smell,
When Mother Nature calls and tells...
It is time to cleanse,
Out the garbage can thoroughly.
With a doing purposely,
A stomach we have chosen...
To put into it unconsciously.

Yet...
Still there are others,
Who become feeling ill and sick.
Hoping a doctor visit or a pill to take,
Will cure the way they feel.

And repeatedly without exceptions.
We all eat what it is to please,
Done to satisfy...
A craving to taste with an urgent need,
To appease an addiction not to restrict...
Whatever we put in our mouths,
Has nothing to do with making us sick.
With a doing to ignore the smell of it.

Even garbage collected to leave on the curb,
If left to stay as is...
Someone will complain to notice,
The smell of it.
To demand from them to be removed.
While diseasing toxins,
Remaining in their bodies.
Await for another round of poisons.
Gone left to accept them to eliminate.
As if chemicals prescribed,
Will do the trick to keep them from sickness.

'My body is not used as a garbage can.'

Neither is the engine in your car.
But...
I am willing to bet,
If you put water in your tank...
You will not travel too far,
Without getting advice from a mechanic.
Who may or may not suggest,
Gas is needed.
And not what anyone believes,
What they wish and want to do...
Will eventually leave them,
To pay the price for their ignorance.

'So...
Are you attempting to call me ignorant?'

Me?
I am neither a doctor nor a mechanic.
And I am sure,
They wouldn't call you that either.
To know and expect you to pay the bill!
My free advice to give,
Is suffering through my own experiences.

'Who...
Would be stupid enough,
To put water instead of gas in their vehicle?'

These days?
People will chose to do what they want.
Regardless of the effects done to themselves.

'Huh?
What does my body,
Have to do...
With garbage cans?
Gas to smell it and water.
And what I decide to put,
In the tank of my car?'

That depends on how far,
You decide you would like to go!
Whether inside or outside,
Of whatever it is...
You need to keep you driven!
And feeling good about it.

'You folks.
You folks are always around,
Trying to convince...
The buying to sell whatever it is makes sense.
And...
For your information,
If I had a car...
I would not be on a bus.
Listening to hear your nonsense.
Thank God I get off at the next stop!'

I'm just saying...

'Absolutely nothing.
Geeessshhh.
And when I got on,
Something said to me...
Do not say a word or open your mouth.
And here you got me thinking,
Of garbage cans.
A car I don't have.
And the smell of my own gas.
What has happened to the World today?'

I'm just saying...

'Enough!
Geeessshhh.'
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Written on July 13, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 3,229
Words 733
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 9, 7, 8, 5, 8, 11, 1, 12, 2, 7, 3, 3, 7, 6, 10, 1, 10, 1, 2

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1 Comment
  • Dougla$Irishman
    All the best care may not prevent all our body aches.
    My best friend died of cancer in spite of eating all natural food
    He made his own meals not eating the families !
    You are what you eat is not always true
    Do eat the chocolate cake !
    And then become a diabetic !
     
    LikeReply1 year ago

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