VANITY

Vanity ©

By: George Puccini

Vanity is oft expressed in different ways -

A telling smirk, a clever foreign phrase, -

A word that's turned in wry disdain...

Petty thoughts expressed in brazen tongue

Weaving ego-massaging words, best left unsung,

Yet playing its self-romance ever so vain

Callously suffering those touched by this self-homage;

For they cannot escape, nay, nor even dodge,

This vapid, empty drizzle from a self-dazzled mind.

So this vanity that shows itself remains unchecked,

Never understanding the relationship now wrecked,

Since vain eyes cannot see the rifts left behind...