A Lesson in Humility

Tempering the tendencies of the Narcissus within me

There was more than a hint of grandiosity in his eyes

I thought his bubble needed to burst enabling him to fall gently back down to earth

where children play and the grass will grow between your toes if you stand still for long enough

when love of self needs tempering with humility.

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2021 Michael Hall is a creative, who is the creator and curator of The Bazaar of the Bizarre and a submissions editor for The POM, married and living in Illinois. He forges poetry on the wordwright’s anvil but also soul travels — by any dreams necessary — like a ship without a sail, because in the words of Albert Camus, “to create is to live twice.”