To Not Be Liked

It's not a bad thing to not be liked. ~ Joe Flacco

Being popular can be a bother, an obligation to maintain,
and staying in that spotlight can cramp your style,
make you feel it necessary to wear false faces, to conform.
Being popular becomes a goal, an obsession, draining energy
and time from the important, the real. The sanity.
What people think of me, individually or among the masses,
is none of my business. Whether television screens bring my face
to millions of homes, or nobody knows what I am doing,
that's fine with me, for it's a Power beyond me – and Flacco —
who's in charge of running my life, of calling my plays.