The sun was bright this morning <br />And as i lay in my bed <br />I smiled out at the world outside <br />And then within my head <br />A strange thought started forming <br />As if not of my will <br />What if plagues and sickness vanished <br />And we stopped getting ill? <br />A happy thought i told myself <br />But then as these things go <br />The consequences came to me <br />Though still thinking rather slow <br />What would happen to the chemists, <br />Doctors, nurses and the rest <br />If we were well all of the time <br />And always felt our best? <br />Wall Street would be mortified <br />Pharma companies would collapse <br />Unless they invented illnesses <br />Or, even worse, perhaps <br />They'd have to spread diseases <br />So we'd need their little pills <br />And all of this might happen <br />If we stopped getting ill.<br /><br />David Keig<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-we-stopped-getting-ill/
