Eat Your Words

I swore off frozen yogurt more than once a week

and potato chips once or twice a week

but found myself saying again and again

this will be the last week I indulge

I promised to not take on too many challenges

yet I couldn't resist the lure and then spent 

too much time scurrying from one activity

to the next with barely enough time

to finish one before beginning another

I convinced myself to not yearn over the next

book to read before I read the last page 

of the book I held in my hand, but found that

I couldn't resist stockpiling books as if they

would all disappear if they didn't sit on my shelf

I believed that once we spoke the road

to connecting up would proceed slowly

but I didn't really anticipate that it would

sputter as if words were costly commodities