- Before You Read, What’s Below,
- you need, to Understand, need to Know
- these are true events of my Life
- I nearly died as a young Man
- Do You Want Treatment
- No, why, without a colon
- is not how I want to die
- I will fight this, with my head up
- chest out, but I will fight
- no lavish Living at my expense
- well I am a Doctor, his only defense
- and I did, fifteen years
- count them, fifteen years
- of blood and water, uncontrollable spewing
- sporadically, attacking me
- no matter where or what I was doing
- Prednisone was my enemy-friend
- it destroyed flare ups,
- resulting in water retention
- I fasted, didn’t punk out
- didn’t start attending Church, or Mosque,
- it was internecine,
- a war fought at a great cost
- with all of these energies, culminating into a Dis-Ease
- I had to come to a point of honesty
- why was me, trying to kill me
- I wanted to control everything and everyone
- this ignited my duress, who was waiting, genetically
- my un-natural eating and drinking, warped my thinking
- until I realized, much was self induced stress
- so, I let go, whatever I couldn’t control, I released
- my obsessive, coercive, driven Living ceased
- changed my outlook, positive, changed my diet
- back to nature, I made up my Mind, I wanted to Live
- with a little medical help, I did it on my own
- deep in thought, often, alone
- Head up, not on my knees, I defeated severe Crohn’s Disease…R.D.Revilo

