Pancreas
I do not know what it does for you
but this, I can guess -
It is vital to you, as vitality goes...
(and I? I suspect, am less).
They say, it is almost more
than just an organ part.
It has a head, a body, a tail -
(does it even have a heart?)
Insulin and Glucagon and
Polypeptide cells -
who would've thought of pan-creation
as a river of alkali hells?
They say, it is imperative
if you must live and lie.
(For if you live, lie you must;
you're just that kind of guy)
Now you're in need and I can't help;
I don't have healing powers.
For I can give you my heart, should you ask...
But not my pancreas.
(C) Annie Zaidi
but this, I can guess -
It is vital to you, as vitality goes...
(and I? I suspect, am less).
They say, it is almost more
than just an organ part.
It has a head, a body, a tail -
(does it even have a heart?)
Insulin and Glucagon and
Polypeptide cells -
who would've thought of pan-creation
as a river of alkali hells?
They say, it is imperative
if you must live and lie.
(For if you live, lie you must;
you're just that kind of guy)
Now you're in need and I can't help;
I don't have healing powers.
For I can give you my heart, should you ask...
But not my pancreas.
(C) Annie Zaidi
Labels: poetry
Selected by Annie Zaidi |
17:46 |
5 Comments:
Hee Hee Hee! Very lovely poem, too! And the last two lines are fantabulous.
Very nice
:-)
great play of words! reminded me of dr suess that I read to my daughter:)
Good to read something you wrote after a long time.... The long absences are purely our fault, of course...
thanks, all. will try and post more often, in future.
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