Hunger Control

I started keeping lists
Of what I'd eaten, what I'd drunk
Letters lined up, drunk and disorderly
Next to black and white numbers.
Soon I was jotting down little plans
So tomorrow wasn't such a surprise
Suggestions for what to eat here, there
Just in case I got hungry, no, they weren't a rule
But terrified am I of the listless hunger
And not knowing what to do.
After a while I made the plans even tougher
To withstand the worst of hungers
Pages and pages of tests I was set out to fail
And the length, like my stomach, shrank and shriveled
While my mind took its fill from possibilities.
By now the morn and eve ruled the day,
What shall I eat; What did I eat -
The only questions on my tongue,
But for those invested in Philosophy -
Now I was free of food that chained my thoughts.
And I live in the future, record the past
But the present is an unknown setting,
One I save for special occasions,
But fear I have grown out of.