Taming Your Terrible Twin

By

Bill Cottringer

We all have twins within—

The best self we strive for,

The bad self we can’t cure;

Should we work on being better?

Or improving our bad self?

Strengths or weaknesses—

Increasing honesty, empathy,

Love, humility and generosity;

Or decreasing lying, jealousy,

Insensitivity, ego and anger?

Or do both at the same time?

Trying to do too much,

Results in too little getting done;

So, when all is said and done,

It might be better to accept,

The whole package we came in,

A family of dueling twins;

After all, can we really accept,

The unacceptable parts of us?

Even this unacceptable reality?

We often try and try again,

But when we try too much,

We usually get too little;

The answer to this dilemma?

Accept what you can,

And let go of the rest.

In the end,

This will define who we are,

Not who we want to be,

Although both are acceptable,

As it doesn’t really matter.