Pride vs Self-Esteem

Humility is not humiliating  
It is the letting go of pride
 
Self-esteem flows solely internalized
Pride rides duplicitous  
Similarly internal
but twisted with a superficial slant
When the id is puffed up with pride
it greedily strokes the ego
Until coming
Apart at the seems
 
Self-esteem builds confidence
while pride leads to arrogance
Pride spins a feedback loop
that suffers from gluttonous envy
The more it feasts the fatter pride grows
then craves praise even more
to feed it's repetitious addiction
 
Self-Esteem is everything!
It fills us with a healthy dose of confidence
providing tools for personal success
Pride thirsts for more than just deserts
wanting others to fail, to have less
while saturating the porous ego
'til drowning in narcissistic reflection
satisfying feelings for oneself
Nurturing a necessity
to keep others lingering
on lower rungs of the ladder
to satiate the greed of the bottomless id
  
Building self-assurance while learning
the difference between pride and self-esteem
is essential to let it go
Because
Self Esteem is everything!  
 
The foundation on which to grow
Planting the seeds within  
Chisseling rocks into building blocks  
constructing self-esteem  
 
Suffocating arrogance  
Sprouting empathy and acceptance  
Rejecting fear, greed and pride  
While embracing  
Confidence born from pure esteem  
Where Charity is not a business run for profit  
Humility is the Meekness that inherits the world