Pride goes before a fall

A warning I have heard

Since childhood

Complacently sure

It would never be said

Of me.

It’s always someone else

Some poor, sad, stupid sod

Who finds himself

Deceived and far away

From God.

Not me.

 

Pride goes before a fall

They say

But what on earth

comes after it?

They haven’t sent

The ambulance

To the bottom of the cliff

This time, still

Blindly content

To continue the warning.

But I

have already

fallen.

Photos by Mar Boy