Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

dark enemy
quick to the punch
countering your every move
there is only one fight
all your efforts
the training, the regimen
are woefully inadequate
jab, right cross
upper and undercut
hooked, caught in the clinch
passive-aggressive,
self-defeated and innocuous
why must you fight yourself like this
a battle you can never win

you have to know when to duck, dino.....we beat ourselves up far more than the rest of the world....enjoyed the imagery...

thanks saw.

...stop boxing then. sometimes the beauty is in the sitting down and the watching life unfold. but we like to box, some of us. specially ourselves

thanks again, sg, for your comments on butter and shadow boxer.

Constantine, self flagellation can be pleasurable, though painful. Maybe that's its allure. Great poem!

John

thank you john.