Kai Michael Neumann Poet Free verse

More Than Transactions

I’m okay you’re okay

I’m not okay and that is okay


honour your parents 

but respect needs to be earned

blind obedience kills childhoods

and where right becomes wrong 

opposition becomes duty


genes and hand me down customs

un-reflected socialisation and traits

are a wicked combination of templates

for unexpressed emotions

and irrational thoughts


when defence mechanisms 

and blindfolded acceptance 

create no more than a chip

off the old block 

on one’s shoulder

to be okay

is definitely

not okay


yet in a way 

it is never too late

to have a happy childhood

because adults can play

and now I need

to talk to my Selves 

just a bit because otherwise

analysis becomes paralysis


07th September

written with Eric Berne's concept of transactional analysis in mind

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