"TAUNTED: LIFE WITH OCD" ::: © JTK.CA

"TAUNTED: LIFE WITH OCD"
TAD is JTK.CA NudistPoet
Copyright © Jonathan Tad Ketchen

Taunted by the jeers
Of my own internal propoganda,
"You'll fail.
You always do.
You wouldn't be able to handle success."

Taunted by the jeers
Of my own internal propoganda,
I stagnate
In the status woe of quo.

I tell myself I'm happy.
I tell the world I'm happy.
But the truth is
I'm used to the way things are.
I'm afraid to push myself.
"What if I'm successful?
Then I'd have to stand on my own two feet.
And knowing me, I'd eventually fall.
I always do."

So many dreams of my triumphs
Are defeated by my own inactions.