Tuning Ego Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Racing up and down a piano keyboard in imagination,
soaring into rhythms of melodies, sanctioning their
blessings this side of heaven.

Searching an interior world for designs and patterns
of desires as they build higher in the ego of my heart,
looking for moments when they may take over and wreck
havoc inside for a while.

Never letting them have free rein for very long, keeping
ego tuned so as not to get out of hand, always wanting
to remain the mere poet that I am and have become on this
earth.