Poetry Thursday: You first

man on couch wearing headphones

Eight hours
of sleep

Thirty minutes
of exercise

Sixty-four ounces
of water

One goal:

Put
your
own
oxygen
mask
on
first
or prepare for a long, hard, rocky, uphill road
of diminishing returns.

Taking care of yourself
can be a bitch
but it does not make you one.

That is reserved
for those who take from others
what is not given.

You first, ma'am:
no matter what shape
the fixing
takes.

xxx
c