Pride

Who?
Love slips off the tongue in whispers
Company of love and love and care
Jealousy courses into almost green
Keep silent

Who is there?
False props to keep afloat
Swimming along in discord
Bloated, drown, drifting debris
Bait for fish bigger then me

Who? Why?
Why keep floating in muck and mire
Come up before washed up
Dragged onto dry land

There's a pride pawing the shore
Pride will tear me up
Lions to devour me whole
Pride, I'll wait 'til I have no pride
. . . . . No more

Then I'll drag myself out
Dirt, slime, tangled, punctured
Pitiful and despondent
As if the pride had had its way

© 1998

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