Ode to a Perfect Pancreas
I hadn’t realised just how much my pancreas did for me until it stopped working properly and I became a Type 1 diabetic. What a thing of beauty a fully-working pancreas is!
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Ode to a Perfect Pancreas
Oh Pancreas, perfect Pancreas,
Oh will you please be mine?
And let me feel the touch of your
Secretions endocrine?
And has left me in the lurch
What can I do to make you mine
And end my ceaseless search?
I love your Islets of Langerhans,
Suffused with treasured stores
Of beta cells, all working well,
A credit to their cause!
The insulin that you put forth,
Oh! If it only could
Restrict the upper limits of
The sweetness in my blood!
You’d be the organ of my dreams,
I’d always treat you well,
And if I could I’d lavish love
On each and every cell!
Oh please, O perfect pancreas,
Your functioning’s divine,
So let me be the one for you –
Your Type 1 Valentine!
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Comment by Hannah on February 18, 2010 at 6:29am -
Aweome poem!
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Comment by LisaLou on February 18, 2010 at 12:31pm -
Wow. That's terrific. Bravo!
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Comment by Robin M on February 18, 2010 at 4:34pm -
Beautiful! I love it! Thank you for expressing our feelings so eloquently, I will definitely check out your other poems.
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Comment by laurenc873 on February 19, 2010 at 2:16pm -
hahaha that made my day.
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Comment by Rhonda Fugate on March 22, 2010 at 12:05am
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i will look at this alot all my life--it is true for all time---not just Valentines day
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