THINGS TO DRINK
Have you ever stopped to count how many
        harmless good herb teas
Are made for us who are concerned about our
        our health, a taste to please
Any connoisseur with tantalizing tastes beyond
        our wildest of dreams,
The variety is quite endless, or to me that
        is just how it seems.
Things made from flowers and many berries
        so good and sweet to taste,
To me not to use them sometimes would be
        a terrible and utter waste.
A friend of mine just drinks coffee at least
        ten times each day,
No wonder she seems to climb the walls,
        sanity seem far away.
I offered her a lemon tea made from pure juice,
        flowers and peel,
She could not believe the taste, then a raspberry,
        she thought the taste unreal.
I told her how bad coffee for the body was to drink,
        and now she’s on herb tea.
She feels and sleeps a lot better now she’s changed
        she does wholeheartedly agree.
Thirty five she counted in the stores of pure healthy
         herb teas, and more I knew,
Now to get her to stop smoking cigarettes every day,
        change her point if view.
However hard I try to point out that the warnings given
        do mean her as well,
She laughs and teases me that she will keep on smoking
        in the depth of hell.
It is something she enjoys, won’t listen when I say how
        wrong and unwise it is to do.
But I will keep on loving her, and hope that one day
        she may want to quit,
Then we can in her home, without me often chocking,
        chat and quietly sit.
(Millicent) Ann Margetson July 10, 2002