Arguments seldom win anything
especially arguments that
run amok through a person’s mind.
All that mind chatter has
the faces and voices from
the distant past ~
everyone living rent free
at my beck and call ~
until I give them
eviction notices
Time passes quietly but they wait
patiently for a so called ‘bad' day
to nail down squatters rights.
With each ‘eviction notice’
their voices lose strength until
I accept
that it really is my own voice
repeating these old messages.
Then I know I really am
the boss of me.
“Be mindful of your self-talk. It’s a conversation with the universe.”
~ David James, footballer
