his mother learned humility
from being hampered by disease
and circumstance from realizing
most of her long-cherished dreams
but he grew up in arrogance,
and had to learn, to his chagrin.
what failure "really meant" to know
just what he was, what he had been
but with the bitter drink he gained
a kind of golden drinking cup:
he keeps forbearance in the spot
(the empty spot) that vanity
took up
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Owen "Beleaguered" Servant (a/k/a Sibelius Russell) writes poetry mostly, with an occasional pause to have a seizure.
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