It is not enough to say
‘I survived, I stayed the course,
I somehow managed
to stay on the horse’,
(albeit sliding ungainly
around its girth.)

It is not acceptable to play victim
to fear and guilt, regret and worry -
they play a mean game
one, which you can never win.

It is easy to pimp for Ego,
but did you read the small print,
when you signed upon the dotted line?
Were you aware you had instantly become
a fully paid-up member
of The Destruction Club?

Listen up, it is not good enough to lurch
from one crisis to another,
like some prima-fucking-donna.
Save the drama.

And hiding behind money,
mortgage, marriage, kids, job,
‘the shit that happened to me in my past’,
is a blatantly disingenuous.

Wakey wakey. There’s more
important business at hand.