Confidence can be an aspiration Respirated through timid lungs Breath deep, fissured words Exhale conceptual carbon dioxide Oxygenated by the natural life Undefined, mismanaged, administered by force These overdone failures have self-prepossession To blame, precursors to magic, mystical spiritual flimsy Whimsy may feel sure, but it's guarded by slime, slipping by rote Dances show wolfishness to be what it is: another character In the republic of personal development, though self-shelf Helps one pretend to twoness, to reject the inadmissible And destroy the parts that claim more than their snare These are false nods to the plum, artifices, fake purples A ripe personality says o, m, b with assurance gained By holding the apple of both of the eyes