Me-Ism Poem by Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.

Demeaning self -
self-ish breed
on 'me, ' 'my, '
self - wolfishly feed
inexpertly displaying
want of nearness
to expertise
dirty dog - filthy beast!
Steadily absorbed in 'me'
voluminous tide
wasted on me
events willfully
tied to me
causes to marry
beneath me.
Fable lore
to make a show of me.
Any pulse, pulsation
rattles many more lies,
an undisguised imitation
nefarious self-falsification!
Instead of self-sacrifice -
the bee's ways of life,
settling for the way
of the ruthless ambition of a fly!
Drill in contriving
notice on all sides of me
through divers means
in a mushrooming frenzy
wide of the mark reams
for ill-aimed advance
as a hungover trance
in a legless, dead drunk dance!
Thinking of self
as 'invulnerable' - drains,
swollen claims
that it had brains!
Ugly turmoil, botched toil,
Stop moil!