OCD
When the price for perfection gets intolerably, agonizingly high,
What does your garden-variety OCD guy or gal do?
Typically, he/she presses ahead, on all ninety-nine cylinders.
Indeed, what's the alternative?
Failure? Disgrace? Humiliation? Self-flagellation? Suicide?
Face it, for people who do not know how or when to say no,
Saying no is just not a viable option to "Yes, I can, must,"
Any more than stopping the heart, to give it a breather,
Would make breathing any easier, existence any less restive.
So it's damn the torpedoes, pedal to the metal, banzai, 24/7,
For your Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder folks,
Regardless the cost to their health, social life, emotional stability.
No other choice you might have has a tongue, a voice,
And if it did, it would have no teeth, to reinforce its mandate
To slow down, be satisfied with a job not always quite complete,
For owning up to that ubiquitous, inevictable truth: human error.
Trapped, you withdraw into your whirlpool's relentless vortex,
Which drains into a never-disappearing abyss.
04/03/09 - (1)
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