I lace up my boots

Put on my red gloves 

My mouthpiece in place

I enter the ring with gusto

Light on my feet

I prance

Swing and a miss

We dance and dance and dance

Then your Direct hit

Now I am K.O. 

Off in the distance

I hear pounding like a knock on the back door

Echoing one two three four 

Vacillating on my feet

I decide to steady my position

Moving forward in self delusion

I head out to center floor

Letting my own stupidity soar

I ready myself to endure more

Promises to myself I make

Vows I say I will not break

Oh, but then that tempter comes

In the form of a beautifully adorned snake

I bite into the delicious fruit

Admiring the whole damn tree

Only to discover in that moment 

The real enemy

She lies right here

Within Me

Grown now

Many years behind me

Yet I still stumble like a child

All wobbly in her Knee

At times I do achieve

Progress and Amplification

Only then to retreat

Requiring of myself

Further Intensification

I have no one to Blame

This is plain to see

For I stunt my own growth

Letting neediness weaken me

Promises to myself I make

Vows I say I will not break

But then - that tempter comes

In the form of a beautifully adorned snake

Bite into the delicious fruit

Fuck, I indulge the whole damn tree

Only to discover in that moment 

The real enemy

She lies right here

Within Me

Not once, twice but thrice

I venture down 

The same old street 

Landing in the same old pot hole

Although mountaineering out sooner than the last

I wonder when I will just learn to avoid   

Avoid that street called  

SELF DEFEAT  

Oh those promises to myself I make

And those vows I say I will not break

But here comes that tempter again

Oh my goodness 

What a beautifully adorned

Snake

Umm Umm Umm

Would I ever like to taste that fruit

Wake up girl it’s time to learn from your own mistake

Take the very first step

Toward setting YOUR SELF free

Save YOUR SELF from emotional agony

I turned away

Headed down a new street 

And in that very moment of choosing 

I achieved victory

Victory

Over my worst enemy

 Me