Ode to a Perfect Pancreas

[Northerner]

This is the poem Balance will be publishing in the next issue

Oh Pancreas, perfect Pancreas,
Oh will you please be mine?
And let me feel the touch of your
Secretions endocrine?

My own dear pancreas failed me
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!



(c) Northerner 2009. Please do not reproduce this without permission.

 

[Northerner]

I've had a search around, and it appears that the only place you can get Balance magazine is by being a member of DUK. There are one or two subscriptions sites, but you'd have to get a whole sub and these are more expensive than joining.

Interestingly, when searching, I discovered there is a Facebook group for balance - spotted quite a few familiar names there! I don't do FB much so never realised there was a group or they might have got a few of my Nurse poems!