When we avoid doing the things which we need to do

We are accomplishing nothing other than becoming blue

For we are frustrating ourselves to the utmost limit

By not doing - and putting ourselves very much in it



... A situation which immerses us in an endless loop

Because we have not the courage to dig out, or scoop

Up the solution - which is handed so readily to us

For we are looking over the top to another "must"



And so we spend so long ... looking, beyond the line

Which we have drawn in front of us - which is fine

Except now we have dug in, and made a trench for us

And then ... those we love, cannot - defend us, plus



Any move they make towards us, must be across this moat

And then, we sit back all huddled up (we think) & gloat

For we have protected ourselves from this frontal assault

And thus we are separated from any resolution to a fault



Does this complication come about from prior broken trust

Or are we really basically superstitious, and so we just

Put up these obstacles in front of us as far as we can see

Just because we are inflexible, so cannot see you and me?



- Tristram