HOW WE SEE OUR OSTOMY.
There’s folks with stomas I suppose
might view their stomas like a rose.
Soft, red, rounded bulbous too
but oft a rose won’t smell like poo.
Other’s will see the best in them
like mothers don’t their kids condemn.
No matter how this thing behaves
the stoma’s master, they’re the slaves.
The stomas are collateral
damage that’s unnatural.
Some people take them to their heart
and vow that they would never part.
Perhaps affection’s just as well
especially when this thing must smell.
For if you start to be averse
it may only make things worse.
I know one man who thinks the stink
has brought him to the very brink.
He’s tried so hard to keep control
but sees this thing as his hellhole.
Another bloke explained to me
and spoke of creatures in the sea.
The feeder fish around a shark
struck a need and found the mark.
Some would see it and beseech
it comes just like a sucking leech.
A thing that’s stuck upon their side
that sucks the dung from deep inside.
Whichever way you view this thing
you may not know what it might bring.
Would stomas see you have more strife
or could they be to save your life?
B. Withers 2013
There’s folks with stomas I suppose
might view their stomas like a rose.
Soft, red, rounded bulbous too
but oft a rose won’t smell like poo.
Other’s will see the best in them
like mothers don’t their kids condemn.
No matter how this thing behaves
the stoma’s master, they’re the slaves.
The stomas are collateral
damage that’s unnatural.
Some people take them to their heart
and vow that they would never part.
Perhaps affection’s just as well
especially when this thing must smell.
For if you start to be averse
it may only make things worse.
I know one man who thinks the stink
has brought him to the very brink.
He’s tried so hard to keep control
but sees this thing as his hellhole.
Another bloke explained to me
and spoke of creatures in the sea.
The feeder fish around a shark
struck a need and found the mark.
Some would see it and beseech
it comes just like a sucking leech.
A thing that’s stuck upon their side
that sucks the dung from deep inside.
Whichever way you view this thing
you may not know what it might bring.
Would stomas see you have more strife
or could they be to save your life?
B. Withers 2013
