Giving it Up for Lent

Overindulgence is not Heaven sent;
easy as pie to indulge in the more.
That’s why he is giving it up for Lent.

Appetite often is unwelcome bent;
thus it intrudes like a hunched-over bore.
Overindulgence is not Heaven sent.

Greed worries not where the last cookie went;
nor does it worry about the last Smore.*
That’s why he is giving it up for Lent.

Profligate take in today makes a dent;
if he has three then he surely wants four.
Overindulgence is not Heaven sent.

Extravagance is a big circus tent;
pitch a lean-to at the side of the shore.
That’s why he is giving it up for Lent.

Immoderation took time to repent;
going without warms him right to the core.
Overindulgence is not Heaven sent;
that’s why he is giving it up for Lent.


19 Lines (Villanelle)
Writer’s Cramp
3-4-15
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*A Smore is a traditional night time campfire treat popular in the United States and Canada,
  consisting of a roasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces
  of graham cracker.

(A villanelle is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet
  repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines.)