Just Self-Medicating © Toons (Mark Lynch)

Doctoring

It's good to have a health check,

professionally once every year.

Better than self-medicating,

with voodoo, fear or beer.

For it's better to know early,

when health problems emerge.

And dispatch them quickly,

before they become a dirge.

For youth is truly wasted,

on the young who ignore,

their health with bad habits,

they pick up by the score.

The greatest health hazard,

is easy access to food.

We overindulge in excess,

with the whims of our mood.

Resulting in statistics that show,

the fatter, the unhealthier, we grow.

With so many choices,

we make every day.

It's so easy to make wrong ones,

so easy, just to fall prey.

To quacks of the health trade,

with a new miracle cure a minute,

diets, supplements, organics, herbals,

a plethora of health gimmicks in it.

When the answer is simply,

living life well and living it right.

Why waste one's life to spend,

your later years in living hell?

So, self-doctor yourself,

for all its long-term worth.

Your health is in your care,

from your very birth.

Copyright 2019 © Ronald W. Hull

3/21/19

You can view this poem at my website here.