OPERATING SYSTEM

Once upon a time

a belief got inside—and grew,

got underneath everything.

Now it is what drives

all the little and big things

you do. Every choice.

It is about lack.

You are trying so hard to prove

it wrong by doing the opposite,

but this is how it gets you.

This is how it runs the show.

This belief is your operating system.

We all got ‘em. Mine is

at work right now,

meticulously choosing

just the right words 

to convince myself, through you,
that I am not who I think I am.