And now and then, I taste the foods I shouldn't; <br />So stupidly in utter disregard; <br />The things I loved to eat, some now I couldn't; <br />My allergy too has made me a Bard. <br /> <br />The sufferings that follow are so great; <br />I take the drugs to combat Allergy; <br />Of course, the symptoms do promptly abate; <br />But side-effects do steal my energy; <br /> <br />1 wish I had avoided the mistake; <br />I can’t be careful, all the time in life; <br />By miracle, if God-could only take, <br />Away the poison that adds to my strife. <br /> <br /> Yet, blame I will myself for my sad plight; <br /> How can a poison turn harmless o'er-night?<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-my-food-allergy/
