Nuts about Nuts

I am nuts about nuts

Especially the peanut

From the top of my head

Right down to my foot.

For over a year

I had decided no nuts,

My cholesterol was rising

I was caught in a rut.

So for a year or so

I hadn’t eaten a peanut

My cholesterol came down

And peanuts I forsook.

I distinctly remember

Another peanut matter:

My peanut butter sandwich

Was less bread more butter.

But that terrible addiction

I had put far behind me

Though occasionally I ate

The nuts from a tree.

Almond nuts and walnuts

Cashew nuts and hazelnuts

But peanuts were my past

I was out of that rut.

After a long time

I decided to take a chance,

I would eat mixed nuts

With a few peanuts to enhance.

And before long

Yea you guessed it right

It’s now an everyday thing

How I wish I might!

I mean control myself

And eating so many peanuts,

For exactly like before

I am back in the rut.

  

No peanut butter though

And it has been years

I have not allowed that delicacy

To even come near.

For the last few months

I’ve been on raisins and nuts

I even keep them in the car

That’s how serious the rut.

O that I could eat

Just one pack every week

Instead of a pack a day,

Oh the outlook is bleak!

Seriously though, I must fight

This terrible peanut urge

So that I don’t encounter again

That cholesterol scourge.

I certainly do not want

To deal with that again

But to avoid peanuts

Oh that’s a colossal strain!

Help me! Please help me

To control myself

And cut back on the peanuts

And thus maintain my health.

Meanwhile I’ll finish this bag

And then it’s a pack a week,

If only I could

That would be a treat!

Persistence is the key

And also the will to resist,

Though I haven’t started yet

Already my peanuts I miss.

For I am nuts about nuts

Especially the peanut,

From the top of my head

Right down to my foot.

Stewart Russell © August 2018