Discipline

He marched it off
in bootcamp,

sweated it off
when told "drop

and gimme 50."
Made weight
each year
by desperation.
But retirement came
with no commands,
no requirements,
no impediments
to appetite.

He left the commands
but found a community
that proclaimed a path
to sanity through surrender,
to a life worth living
by changing behavior,
not forcing conformity.