Temptation

Temptation is a weather gauge,
showing prevailing winds,
predicting the future by the present,
static, innocuous, but meaningful.
The bowl of candy leaving Rotary
most Fridays sits there. I see it,
rejoice that it doesn't call my name.
Until it does. When I want to dig the spoon
into those mint-flavored, candy-coated
chocolate morsels. When I even think
about what's in them, it's like that
BLEAT, BLEAT, BLEAT ... this recovery
has been interrupted, and storms are coming
unless you get back into right mind,
surrender, ask for God's will, not mine,
and put those candy-thoughts in their place.