MYSTERY JUICE!!

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NEW PROMPT: Write a short story or poem about walking along and finding a bottle of clear liquid labeled "Youth Serum". You decide to drink it. What happens when you do???

MYSTERY JUICE!

(is this as dangerous as taking candy from strangers?? YES, and it's lots more fun--
or is it??

The juice was labeled "youth serum"--I HAD to take a drink!!
Since I just became 50-young, what else was I to think??
I know that age is just a state of mind, and I've lost mine!!
I'm perking along very well--but that was quite a find!!
I took a gulp--it tasted GREAT--and I was on a roll!
I drank the rest without a breath-I was out of control!!
I noticed the effects of it before I could sit down,
the first miracle that it pulled: my hair changed back to brown!!
I jumped for joy, I cried aloud--my MS was all gone!
Stood up and walked, jogged 'round the block--the fun went on and on!!
Until a genie came to say the serum had a price--
it could make my body be young. but I would not be nice!!
I begged him please to take it back--young by itself is not
all there is to having good life, a lesson I've been taught!!
And so he took it all away, the magic serum. sweet--
the health, the beauty, the brown hair--but left my soul complete,
I'm acting like I ought to act, I LIKE MYSELF AGAIN!
I will not drink mystery juice, 'til I know where it's been!!: