Believe It!

...but they don't believe it. And that's the difference. ~ Glenn Beck

They say it's a disease.
If you repeat it like a mantra
but don't believe it, you're blocked.
They say we're not a diet and calories club
but if we act like we are...we are,
with all the failure and humiliation
we've come to expect.
I can't cure arthritic legs by wanting to,
or create 20/20 vision in these old eyes.
I wouldn't ignore a diagnosis of diabetics
or pneumonia or even a nasty cold...
but I do this disease.
When I learn I'm not like normal people —
that they don't eat sweets from five stops
in an hour or two – when I learn my body
is pieced together with different binders,
that it's really an addiction...
when I stop fighting it and welcome the normalcy,
the curable nature of the disease,
when I believe I have the disease of compulsive eating
and am a sugar addict...
then the healing begins!