Pride Poem

As I think on this let me begin
To say pride in itself is no sin

What is wrongful about pride
Is overstating what you supplied

As pride may falsely convince
That you are really a prince

You’ve put too much stock in your self worth
When it’s really just the luck of your birth

It means little if you were born pretty, strong or smart
It’s what you’ve done, or not done, that may set you apart

Now that that’s out of the way
Let me go on further to say

That if you’re not deceived
By what you’ve achieved

And it’s not just birth luck
But done by hard work and pluck

Then it’s okay to revel
And not a bit from the Devil

You’ve all right to have pride
Since you fought for the ride

Now that that is explained
For sexism I can be blamed

By focusing now on man
And his possible life plan

And I say a man may walk tall and proud
If love of woman he be endowed

Indeed a woman of depth, strength and heart
Sets the man who wins her apart

And it’s no sin of pride
To this tell the world far and wide