What can I eat,  what should I skip
What should never pass over my lips. Acid reflux rules my life…                Making eating,  forever a strife.

Sometimes I take a chance
Eating things that in my throat dance.
A firey jig the burns to my toes
With me pacing back and forth in rows.

I eat tums by handfuls
And drink gallons of milk.
Eating wrong foods keep me
Up late at night much longer than guilt.
Guilt you can justify and still sleep night and day…
But the burn in my throat just won’t go away.

*jcs