Ego is not the enemy,
it simply needs some control,
like willpower, which
is not a weak force,
like addiction or love.
Nor are neither the culprits
caught in circumstance, tagged It
in the blame game,
standing in the way of wind,
struck ill, accursed, vexed and falling plagued
to indecision, which is not
Doing anything
for them-selves
like self-immersion or suffocation
in one’s self-doubt, like insecurity,
self-consciousness,
like paranoia and conspiracy
under-lying self-sacrifice…
We are not safe with our selves.
Image of painting by James Sant [Public domain], Courage, Anxiety Despair (c. 1850) via Wikimedia Commons.
