Victims of Arrogance



One symptom of arrogance is the overwhelming
Conviction that you are smarter than everyone else.

Another symptom is the belief that your truth
Is the only truth and that all else is false

A further symptom is the self-perpetuating myth
That access to wisdom can only be gained
Through your exclusive pathway and that
all others are merely misguided ignorance

One more expression of arrogance is the use of mockery
Insult and slander against all with whom
You disagree or who disagree with you

“Arrogance may be likened to a prison cell
In which an inmate & criminal is confined.”

Arrogance is a blight that is blind
To the sight within and the sight without
It is a symptom of a mind unkind
That knows not what the world is about.

Arrogance and ignorance are both unlikable
And bedfellows betrothed in blindness
Without shame or conscience and both indictable
Nor are they touched with kindness.

“The heart that is arrogant and the
mind that is ignorant occupy the
common abyss of self-deception and are
Trapped in the vortex of ego.”