Poetry
What eyes thunder in,
What heart heaves the body sick,
What hands rip to ruin,
Serenity?
A wrathful addiction,
That tempting creature Pride,
Niggles us into,
Scores of preposterous preening.
We feed ourselves,
False compassion,
And soon we believe the ‘beautiful boasts’,
The swelling swagger of our tongues…
Only to find,
We are snagged,
And Hubris holds us in the tyranny of lies.
Hubris possesses us.
I flail with caged rage,
To find that I can only croak,
A cracked whisper,
Of truth.
And suddenly I shudder to know,
This grim occupancy,
Of Vanity, of vulgarity…
Oh humility!
Each shattered piece,
Just a slip of a wingéd thing,
These Glittering Monarchs light on our bare bark,
Covering the rough, jagged trunks,
Until all flutters, quivers,
With a ravishing peace,
That frays away,
The furious fool…
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