Jeremy C Kester

a poem

How does one turn
Obsession into disgust
If that obsession
Drags you into shit?
Making you believe
it does something
Different than that
How can one part ways
With a bad habit?
When discomfort and fear
Beckon for it to come
So they might hide from you
Or rather, so you might
Hide from them
Can you change it
Into simple boredom?
And choose a challenge instead?
How can one rid
Themselves of the things
They use to drag themselves down?

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