An ice cream shake topped with caramel

It was a lot of eating
five strips of
deep fried chicken
with golden fries
sitting on the side

a piece of creamy cheesecake
followed by,
an ice cream shake
topped with layers
of amber colored caramel
running down its side.

And by jove,
it felt good,
that is,
until the moments
of reckoning

when drifting away into sleep
and getting warmed under the quilt
there was a visitation from guilt

for breaking the quest to
to be simple and be humble,
and for not staying the course
and so easily tumble.

All there was to say
that there is another tomorrow
wake up in the morning
and try to
get back in the flow.