1/
Two lives. Safe from scandal.
Oddly what does appal
Those nosiest of fiction writers
The false biographers.
2/
Shunning fame. Shy of face.
All such empty boastings
Quashed there yond, behind a door.
Yonder, in private moor.
Each mind as elusive
As the other to track.
Indoor or outdoor, wild, free
Whose dazzling ran thought-spree.
* bronte, dickinson
Pride is really an awful thing
one's head is filled with nonsense
God is never pleased with this rot
for it makes one's head so dense
God's warning to never look too far
for the future you can never know
it can all change in a moment
in a twinkling of the eye it is so
Boasting is so stupid a thing
it marks the fall of man so clear
since Adam fell in the garden
the price paid is a dull ear
God's warning comes so very often
especially to fear God and all He says
so boastings are to be excluded
not just for a moment but all our days
Solomon has written these Proverbs
God endowed Him with being wise
man has been the beneficiary of that
so learn well likewise to rise
(" Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.")
Proverbs 27: 1 (KJV)
The colours in the darkness have faded to grey
The searing white hot sun has bleached throughout the day
The skull and the spine that pierces through the hide
Of the buffalo that hunters have deemed the time to die.
The maggot’s presence shows that the vultures have deserted
Time marches past, even when the flesh to dust has reverted
Far away, the trophy horns to boastings have been tied
So the Sky with a roar showers the rain, to cover up her mournful cry.
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