The Art of Self-Sabotage:

Wanted:

Suspect is 6’2”

Athletic build

Brown skin with long curly hair

Tortoise frame glasses and a birthmark..

Yeah that’s me.

My best friend and

My worst enemy.

Self preservation can lead to absorption

Being caught in your own sunken place

It can keep you so single-minded

How could you see what’s in your face?

Good things come with asterisks

Points to save for later query

Every action has a pretext

Every explanation a conspiracy theory

There’s no I in team

But there is a me in game

I’m stuck in my own Matrix

When things really aren’t that lame

I’ve got to break this cycle

And let whatever will

And when that voice inside me bubbles up

Say, “It’s all good. Chill man. Chill.”