Everything Expands

To fit available dimensions everything expands

This is a truth I’ve come to understand

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Work expands to fill time available to you

Stuff expands to fill spaces all the way through

Waists expand as long as there is food to eat

The universe is expanding, proven by evidence concrete

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When no limits on the length of my workday I place

Work seems to fill up every waking minute, leaving no space

For me to relax, recharge or simply unwind

The only solution to this problem that I can find

Is to set a deadline for a reasonable hour of the day

(But I tend to disregard that deadline anyway)

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I have more space in my house than I need

It is a quintessential first-world problem indeed

Even when I do not want to accumulate stuff

It piles up, getting rid or it becomes increasingly tough

I need to pretend that there is limited space available to me

Then I would be able to get rid of stuff guilt-free

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There is overabundance of food around me

To refrain from eating less takes discipline extraordinary

Therefore portion sizes must be reduced

Such that a caloric deficit can be induced

Only then can the expansion of waist size

Be curbed- this should come as no surprise

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What I am basically trying to say

Is that we need to place limits in some way

Otherwise expansion unchecked continues-

Let me end here and some limits choose

Published by Docpoet

A mother, a physician by profession, fiercely passionate about work, family, travel and fashion..

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