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Life's First Act : Humility
we can humble ourselves now
or time will humble us later
Mother Nature blesses us with our gifts
Father Time slowly takes them away
for humility...true humility
is one of the founding pillars of wisdom
the other is respect
thus goes the divine order of things:
one cannot have wisdom
without respect
and one cannot have respect
without humility
no one is getting off this 3rd
rock from the Sun without some scars
and the shadow self intrinsically
knows that we have to at least learn the basics
of the Satan two-step to co-exist
in this...realm
so it presses heavily upon the id
nightly..daily...yearly
and rightly so
as it swings that double edged pendulum
disemboweling our fraudulence
one dream at a time
yeahhh
no one can hold us accountable like our demons
we can tell the world whatever we want
believe whatever we want
pray to whoever or whomever we want
but every time we close our eyes
we see another 'set' of eyes peering at us
from the dark recesses of our mind
mock applauding our
latest performance for the masses
a merciless jury indeed
watching without empathy or sympathy
as we cry in the pitch of blackness
vomiting up our falsities
exposing our frailties
smearing them on the floor as
a portrait of our failures
humbling us one grain at a time
crumbling second handed ideologies
shattering {h}our glass houses
made of sand..yet moved by sand
ironic
unrelenting...
drowning out the wails of
our unrepentant
as Father Time exacts his toll with interest
and penalties accrued
upon the Judas of the Spirit
Published 4th Oct 2023
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4th Oct 2023 9:23pm
That was......out of this world good.
I'm on the ground blown away 😊
I'm big on humility.
I'm on the ground blown away 😊
I'm big on humility.
5th Oct 2023 5:43am
You have written a lot with humility...The virtue of humility is difficult to find in a human being, but I would like to say that happiness can only come if humility is cultivated...
5th Oct 2023 6:01am
i totally agree...
humility is that missing ingredient
that needs to be cultivated..slow cooked
so that it can be served to
perfection and by default transform
us into better lovers
humility is that missing ingredient
that needs to be cultivated..slow cooked
so that it can be served to
perfection and by default transform
us into better lovers
5th Oct 2023 8:02am
5th Oct 2023 11:43am
