Be gone foul cup cake

I will not eat that cake

It sits there gloating

Full of fat, bulging cream

As if to say

Be like me, abundant

Indulgent, finger-licking good

But I have eaten my ryvita

My chosen food of suffering

Chewed down the tasteless

Sesame covered cardboard

And I will not be tempted

By such fancies as that

Luscious cup cake

I have aspirations

To be less of me

And if I have to live

On cardboard and water

It will be so.

I am a woman with a goal

Not some weak floozy

Who is thrown by the unexpected

I am made of sterner stuff

My will once set

Cannot be broken.

Be gone foul cup cake

I spurn you

You are nothing to me

In the greater scheme of things

You are but a tiny morsel

I’ll take just one crumb to remind me

Of all that I choose to reject

One needs to know the enemy

Keep your friends near

But your enemies even closer

Heavens that cake was small

It started with a crumb

Barely a morsel

But somehow the cake has been eaten

I can’t believe it’s gone

In the greater scheme of things

I will not let such a slip

Cause me to lose my way

To err is human after all

Even one crumb can lead you to disaster

Now I know the danger of a tiny piece

That is how it begins

A slippery slope

To cake indulgence

I will be strong

I will say no

To all future, finger-licking food