I Fear My Potential
I can not, I will not succumb to the darkness that resides within. And yet I must, for the darkness is powerful, unrelenting and unstoppable. It consumes me as a dog clears its bowl, swiftly and without hesitation. If I allow it to take over, succumb to its promise, I will become the darkness. Powerful, unrelenting, unstoppable! If I succumb to the darkness I will become all that I despise. Violent, bullying, arrogant and filled with hateful rage. So I resist the urge to succumb, I remain static and powerless. My potential scares me.

We Don't Think, So.....
                                   we just do.
We work and we toil, we sweat and we boil, breaking the rocks and turning the soil, check out and check in but don't think.

We fetch and we fix, don't take time off sick, we carry and take, must stay awake, we eat and we drink but don't think.

We do what we must, don't know who to trust, constantly watched, observed and surveilled, always expecting to be told that we've failed, we don't stop for a minute and think.

We can't afford to be ill and we won't be a burden, we don't bother to peek behind the curtain, where the powers that be are quietly herding, sending out warnings that we're in danger of drowning, that we'll sink if we stop for a minute and think.

We're told not to worry, just crack on and hurry, that we're vital parts of a chain made of links. So we don't think, we just do.