Looking Down
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Sometimes though you have been taught in the best schools you still aren't as smart as some who never went to school at all.
Common sense and kindness go a long way.
Sometimes the wealthy are not as rich as they think they are and the poor are not as poor.
Another lady I remember put it this way,
"We aren't poor, we just don't have any money."
While looking down my nose on someone,
I thought less than me,
I failed to see her kindness,
Her generosity.
While looking down on someone else,
A dirty, unwashed beggar,
I failed to notice how he shared,
And called his friends together.
I'm proud of my intelligence,
My intellectual prowess,
And I look down on lesser minds,
That I think cannot process,
The in's and out's, intricacies,
Of certain mental matters,
And need to have it simplified,
And laid out on a platter.
I'm proud of my good grooming.
I'm quite the fashion plate.
My coiff, my clothes, my etiquette,
Why I think I'm just great.
How they can seem so happy,
So down right gratified,
I can't understand at all,
I'm never satisfied.
Copyright © Judy Ball | Year Posted 2017
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