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 Robyn on February 14, 2010 at 8:22am -
Love it!
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Comment by Sweet Blood on February 15, 2010 at 12:30pm -
love your poem, oh how i wish a perfect pancreas would be my Valentine.
Sweet Blood
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Comment by Julie Ann h on February 15, 2010 at 9:17pm -
I love it. (Let me know if your wooing works.) ;)
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Comment by Pilcrow on February 16, 2010 at 12:30am -
haha that's great!
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Comment by Asma on February 16, 2010 at 5:09am -
so sweet :)
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Comment by Gabrielle Smart on February 16, 2010 at 3:03pm -
I LOVE IT!!!!! IT MADE ME CRY!!!! :-)
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Comment by Kristy on February 17, 2010 at 1:37am -
Ha, Brilliant!
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Comment by brandi on February 17, 2010 at 9:28am -
lol this is great!
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Comment by Alan Eastwood on February 17, 2010 at 10:22am -
Thank you everyone for all your kind comments, I'm so pleased you enjoyed my poem! This poem is to be published in Diabetes UK's magazine 'Balance' this month. There is a lot more of my poetry at http://diabetespoetry.blogspot.com
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Comment by Amy Stumbo on February 17, 2010 at 10:40am -
a really great poem, thanks for sharing it!
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