Self-Esteem (Free Verse Improv)

At first, you compare, like side-by-side metronome tick and tock from (not) you to you and back. At second tick, brick-by-brick are towers built in defense against non-existent foes. A miner's diligence, it takes to dig beneath in roundabout ways; to catch off guard, defenses down. At third tock, through periscopes you peer submerged in oceans never mapped, gone off to uninvited parties on battleboats in sailor hats, avoiding uncalled, unreal, unpassable muster. At last (finè) alarm clock sounds and wakes you up to morning self-esteem - not generically from factory but naturally old-fashion style with farmer's soil plus rain and sun, with omega-3.