Vanity:humility

Vanity:humility

The vanity in believing they will read it -  the humility in thinking no one will
The vanity in thinking you can write the world  - the humility in sitting alone in a room
The vanity is recording truth – the humility in searching for truth
The vanity in believing you will finish – the humility of a word at a time
The vanity in I write what I like – the humility in another might see it

Then when romping vanity and wandering humility cross paths they freeze in fright
But wise created creator must breathe in both vanity and humility, one in each nostril, and out of her mouth breathe out the ambiguous tension between them:
A pencil line brazenly marking pages – to be erased, hidden at any time.