The last of the mixed bags

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Mary's Mixed Bag has been a popular feature at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, but Mary has had to withdraw. We will miss her, but we do know that life sometimes gets in the way.

Just for today, Kerry took over the prompt and presented us with an intriguing Mixed Bag idea...
imagine a bag containing something harmful and something healing, and write a poem about how we choose between them.

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The Haunted Addict

I have in my hand a mixed bag,

some harmful things,

some healing things,

which will I choose today?

I’m afraid I know the answer,

it will, as always, be

the items in my mixed bag

which are the worst for me.

I was born without the will

to avoid temptation

although I know some things will harm

I still want the sensation

of candy melting in my mouth

of bread with butter loaded,

on darkest chocolate I have grazed

until my brain exploded.

Just a little, I would say,

a bit to get me through,

and I won’t do it any more,

but then, of course, I do.

Think you I exaggerate?

I really don’t, believe me,

my list of harmful things imbibed

will always haunt and grieve me.