Downsized From An Ego Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Taking time to waste it,
Undermining someone else...
Does not brighten the future,
For those exercising...
Their beliefs they have rights,
To criticize others as an entitlement.

Too often the ones who practice this,
Will find their lives not yet to experience...
Being downsized from an ego.
And an ego diminished can not escape,
From a public display of deflated pretentions.
Attempts to do this guarantees disappointment.

Although not intended,
But a living a life to know what it's like...
To do without becomes more appreciated.
Especially when one is on the receiving end,
Of negative comments meant for them to hear.
To have it done to hear those words heard clear.

And a listening to learn to close one's mouth,
Is a test of a lesson some eventually will pass.
Done to accomplish at last,
A complete understanding to comprehend...
The meaning of humility.
Its use and purpose to make it shown it is known.