A Familiar Story, by Bill Cox

TEMPTATION

Here, then, is my narration,
A story to save you from starvation!
In the cookie tin lies your salvation,
A sugar rush to induce elation.
Don’t suffer from frustration,
Unfulfilled urges lead to vexation!
Liberate yourself from privation,
You desire this biscuit sensation.
Blind to consequence your contemplation,
Life is now, tomorrow but aspiration.
You are lost to this fixation,
Surrender to compulsion, to temptation.
Your craving is this tale’s creation,
This story familiar, you know its culmination,
It always ends with your capitulation!