Kummerspeck
(German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally "grief bacon."
Some of us have the privileges
so many that we lose count
and we fail to identify
often when and how
A privilege
becomes a cage
Food not for survival
but food to satiate this rage
this sadness
The hopelessness of this plague
What is on your plate?
Is it just food?
or an opiate.
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So true! Many times we forget to count our blessings and just crib about things not available to us. Loved the line, a privilege becomes a cage!
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ReplyDeleteThat last line hits hard.
The fact that this German word sounds like waist in Hindi (kummer) made me smile. The warning is in the word.
Of course both Hindi and German have a lot common with Sanskrit , so there
DeleteI thought the same. :)
DeleteOh wow - this was brilliant Pooja.
ReplyDeleteThanks Suchita
DeleteExcellent poem! And I love the “stressed is desserts spelled backwards” image. So true, as we reach for the sugary foods. https://mollyscanopy.com/2021/04/kents-and-the-creek-i-learn-to-smoke-atozchallenge/
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Molly
DeleteThis is one question a lot of people need to ask themselves. Wonderfully put.
ReplyDeleteYes maybe, thanks for visiting
DeleteI confess that I have to be very careful not to comfort eat and you express this First World problem so well...
ReplyDeleteYes it is a problem with most privilged people
DeleteIn Weight Watchers (I've been on their program for almost nine years) we learn a lot about emotional eating and stress eating. We do tend to self-medicate with food. But it solves nothing.
ReplyDeleteYes thats true Alana thst when iot becomes opiate
DeleteFood for thought! Loved these lines...
ReplyDeleteThanks Satabdi
DeleteOpiate ... woah... absolutely. How wonderfully you narrated ! Well let me confess I am one among these . I overeat when tensed or anxious .
ReplyDeleteHappens to all of us sometime
ReplyDeleteInteresting to know this German word that seems to have some links with Hindi. Also with Cummerband.
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