The Top Shelf

Life is tough, but so are we

So let them, and at least, pretend to listen

But embrace your own

A curious musing.

With skin that glows like a latte pond, chocolate bittersweet, or a Hershey’s Kiss, honeyed and molten on the tongue

On choosing “ease” over efficacy

Maybe it’s healthier to just “give it up”

Thanks to having had cancer, the gift that keeps on giving