Day 4 - On Excesses

A Habit I Wish I Didn't Have

I wish ...

I did not talk so much

I open my mouth and out it comes

and comes

and comes

and comes.

I wish ...

I did not eat so much

I open my mouth and in it comes

and comes

and comes

and comes.

I wish ...

I did not hoard so much

My rainy day stash 

of all things but cash

keeps growing 

and growing

and growing.

I wish...

I did not try to do so much

Just one more thing I'm heard to say

for I'm later

and later

and later

each day.

I wish...

I knew how to stop this trial of Excesses

This filling of all my open recesses

this overindulgence

and filling each moment

and saying too much

and eating too much

and saving too much

and doing too much

I think if I did

that I would soon find

Instead of a life filled with Excesses,

A life filled with just rightessnesses:

saying just right

and eating just right

and cleaning just right

and promptness
just right.

And instead of all the Excesses

I would soon find my life

filled with

gloriously

shining and

wonderfully

happy,

extraordinarily 

delightfully

fun

Successes!