The Narrow Sins of Vanity

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Rarely do I think outside myself; I must be made that way

I do not have the wherewithal to champion myself and others, too

I have my limitations, my maladies, my peculiar interests to defend

It is my disposition, a nature too ingrained in me to do otherwise

Yet, sometimes I have seen the Christ Head in a stranger,

Observed the similarity of want and wonder

Then, the sins of vanity are mitigated

In the wide expanse of love …

Quite outside of me,

Quite despite me.

 

-II-

 

But

 

My low estimation of others

Makes me cynical about

God’s judgment

 

And suspicious

Of His intentions -

 

He becomes the devil

 

Because what but a demiurge

Would fashion an unlovable creature

 

Like Man?

 

Like you?

 

Like me?