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Pride

by David Garner

Pride,
what you call your sweet posession.

Pride,
why you've never apologized to me.

Pride,
what your father told me you told him you had.

Pride,
what you mistake for hatred and defiance.

11/07/2007

Posted on 11/07/2007
Copyright © 2025 David Garner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 11/23/07 at 07:00 PM

Some are so grateful to have a word like that, sort of like an anthem, or quote that one takes for granted, and everyone agrees with. Not me. Life is more complicated than that... as you so clearly and poetically display,

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