Sunday, March 7, 2010

Self-respect

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While my self-image is
made of fragile crystal glass
can easily break at any time,
I have enclosed that fragile
self-image within the steel
girders of self-respect that
brings respect for all forms
of existence, for other people,
on condition that I may laugh
at our own pretensions because
being human is to be enclosed
within an illusion that obscures
things as they are.
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