Short Defensiveness Poems

“Maturity is not in age but in one’s ability and willingness to want to learn, understand
and in acknowledging not knowing, not in defensiveness”

True maturity is the ability to persistently always want to come to a resolution when faced with problems rather than the opposite.

True maturity is the ability to persistently always want to come to a resolution when faced with problems without accusing or assigning blame....

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I could not stick my head in glue
To feed and wait with barnacles,
Or seek security among
Aggregate anemones,
Or anchor to tomorrow with sedentary polyps,
Or browse with slugs,
Or cling to rocks,
Or maintain the perpetual
Defensiveness of urchins,
Or achieve “being realistic”
With camouflaged bottom dwellers,
Or remain isolated in a shell.

I float on my colors,
Moved by current desires.
Developing backbone
To swim effortlessly
In the ocean of possibility....

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Feelings of inferiority 


Irritated and enraged
Just like ocean waves
Defensiveness like a baby who tries and crawls but falls

Fear and forlorn hit the floor
Confused and want to run out the door
Insecurity and hopelessness are at the pore 

Guild and hatred will haunt you down
Screams of agony are the closest sounds
Lost in the middle of overwhelming I fall to the ground

Will the emotions ever end?
Fear of rejection my mind sends
All I need for this to end is friends...

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