Pride
comes
before a fall
a fall
becomes
the humbling of a man
a man's very being
value and worth
brought into question
his soul revealed
his heart aches with humility
stops short of seeing him as anything
mortal and sinful, wretched flesh
clinging to a skeletal structure
in which weakness and strength battle
in a war between self-belief and egotism
in which good and bad are on the same axis
a man should have humbling pride
in what he is worth
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Author's Notes: This works in reverse! This was a "never had time to fit it in for the Inverse challenge". Felt a waste not publishing it.
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