Habit Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

I am a creature of habit;
If I go daily to gym at Bandra,
It continues well, but if I don’t go
One day, for I have to catch
An early flight to Cochin for meeting,
Then it is doubtful whether next day
I will go. True about yoga or walking too.
I have to break that mould
To start the habit again.

I have found that I can go daily,
Or go not at all.
I can either give up completely
On smoking or sweets, or be prey to it;
Same with coffee, either no or frequent;
It is like the pendulum in motion
Swinging to both extremes without fail.
Why cant I control the wings
A little, or more, as I want to fly?

My mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make me do what I do not want to.