Righteous and Proud
by Marc Mangel
To be righteous and to be proud are indeed
such high virtues for they
build from softness into the
true character. Yet like
all those things of
goodness they are but small
and pinpoiints surrounded by
the wholeness of evil.
Too often the path is slippery and
slides into evil
for to be selfrighteous and too proud
to believe a failing
are the marks of the best
of those who too quickly tried to rise
so in the softness of true good
try to being again
less righteous
less proud
but better
March 1973