Bitter Truth
12.18.05 (3:27 pm) [edit]Get up keep moving,
we all get knocked around,
betrayed, treated unjustly.
Sometimes I am the victim,
at others the victimizer.
I tend look upon others as evil
who cause me pain,
while reserving good reason for myself
when I offer my gentle touch
of correction,
or righteous indignation.
I always have good reasons
carefully thought out, or so I tell myself.
In my more honest moments,
which can be few, and far between;
I have to admit
that I to can be unjust,
cruel,
bigoted,
and just plain ignorant.
I just don't often have the courage to admit it,
to do so would shatter my fragile, shallow ego,
constructed to fool others,
to keep from them the bitter truth,
that in the end is freeing
that I to am not all that together
in need of love, grace, and forgiveness
both from God, and humanity.