Big Ego

He's got a big ego,
he keeps offending people,
he scoops the same scoop,
and round and round we loop,
until the bubble pops
and the world sees him flop,
reject the rude,
deflate your ego,
swearing kills the mood,
you able?

I'm getting too cocky,
I could outbox Ali,
wrestle with The Rock
reach the top and stop and mock,
ego full of stock
forget the tick tock
because I'm 24 7
until I get into heaven,
insomnia beckons
and amnesia threatens,
bend rhymes like Beckham,
dunk punks like Jordan,
the mental perfection
with its rhyme injection,
about to live the lesson 
of the ego outstretchin'
the limit it can flex,
the crux, the critical,
I rhyme the old skool
and wear hip hop shoes,
I hate the mumble flop
with the words unused,
it's just ear abuse,
on the loose,
with no use,
it's noise with no excuse.

I suspect that this project
will impact and inflict,
sick tricks, and then retract
and evaporate back
to the gods intact,
before it's redirected
to another level head,
who wrecks and blows it,
crash the car, 
went too far,
you go from feeling cool,
to a sample of your stool,
that big head 
now gone and the face left red,
baking big mistakes,
taking punches from a heavyweight,
David doesn't always beat Goliath,
cometh the hour,
cometh the coffin,
you can't stimulate with coffee
because the heart stopped beating,
the soul is set free
and this world you're leaving,
beaten down with ease,
lying dead and bleeding,
how's that big ego?
You still offending people?

One hand holds but the other can't reach,
near rhymes aren't real rhymes
and sand doesn't mean a beach,
but if you find the flow,
find a way to wined the cable,
then transmit clear and stable,
and accurate like a machete
you'll rhyme like a line of spaghetti,
but with deadwood on your lead 
and at ease in your bed head,
because it feels so easy with an ego, 
then know it wont make a good show,
so put your feet on the ground
be aware of how the words sound,
leave behind the prima donna 
or become another gonna,
stop the passive aggression,
or accept a massive regression,
fill your minds storage with knowledge
beyond the college,
there's always more to learn
and more wood to burn,
big heads remove themselves
when they burn their own shelves.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 10/13/2018 10:23:00 AM
Link to the song.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaLxlt0f-io&list=PLrWXQQOwWgeAzG8lMiXPHNQeO_aFFxhLi&index=4&t=0s (Copy and paste it)
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Date: 7/13/2018 10:04:00 PM
Congratulations, Nick, on your wonderful win with your excellent and expressive poem. Warmest wishes.. ~Susan
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Nick Trim
Date: 7/18/2018 8:33:00 AM
Thank you Susan :)
Date: 7/13/2018 7:22:00 PM
Congratulations on your win. I was leery at first but then got into it. Creative. I enjoyed it.
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Date: 7/18/2018 8:33:00 AM
Thanks Susan :)
Date: 7/13/2018 6:03:00 PM
Congratulations on your awesome win. Nicely written.... Hugs Eve
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Date: 7/18/2018 8:33:00 AM
Thanks Eve :)
Date: 7/12/2018 9:34:00 AM
Hey Nick I enjoyed the rhymes in this one, felt like a rap song, although in a rhyming contest it would seem unlikely a rap style would do well, but you know what I really liked it, congrats!
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Date: 7/12/2018 9:36:00 AM
it actually is a rap song it's been record and put on youtube lol thanks for the placement, I'm glad it did well and you enjoyed it :D
Date: 7/10/2018 11:10:00 AM
Excellent poem. Recognizing the ego is perhaps the most difficult yet rewarding experience possible. Thanks Nick!
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Date: 7/10/2018 11:12:00 AM
thank you :)
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