Deadly sins

Ever notice how some people get more credit than others? Deserved or undeserved? Me too.

Home today

Working through some

Of the seven deadly sins.

I would rather focus

On other things.

I am stuck in the middle

Of envy, avarice and wrath.

They are embodied

By older women who have accrued

More credit than I perceive they should,

Some well-deserved

In my oh-so-discerning eye,

Some not so deserved

In my bedeviled heart.

They are writers.

Everything they write drips gold

Even when it doesn’t.

Everything they write is quoted,

And quoted,

And quoted again.

If I read one more quotation

I may rant somewhere inappropriate.

I am home trying to figure

Which sin applies.

Envy?

Avarice?

Wrath seems too big.

Pride covers all.

Gluttony, lust and sloth

Will need to wait

For another day.

Personality Disorder, NOS

I am a mental health professional and a priest and a mother and a wife and.... well, a lot of things.  All of us are.  A lot of things.  I am a Person with a capital P.  So are you... and you... and you.  So is every person I sit with in my office, every person I sit next to on the train, every person I pass in the street, simply:  Every Person, Everywhere.  I am a Child of God, as is everyone I encounter, everyone I work with.  I question the helpfulness of Axis 2, most of the time.  Truth be told, we all could be charted on Axis 2, somewhere.  Not Otherwise Specified.

Most of the time

I question Axis 2.

Before learning the DSM structure

In grad school

I had different categories

For people

(Sure I had categories)

But mostly

They were still People

With a capital P.

Walking

Breathing

Children of God.

They still are.

This is a rant.

I know.

Not very poetic

Or even

Reflective.

Most of the time I question

Axis 2.

Truth be told

We all have a number

On Axis 2.

We are all in the book.

These are behavior quirks

Which make us

Not like other people.

Still

We are People

With a capital P,

Walking

Breathing

Children of God.

N  ot

O  therwise

S  pecified.

Thank God.

Praise God.