You laugh at them. You point your finger and call them a fool. Their silence amuses you, their gentleness becomes your joke, and the crowd joins your laughter as if kindness were weakness. It feels enjoyable today, sweet on your tongue like careless victory. Their patience becomes your stage, their humility your entertainment. But time is a quiet witness. It watches without speaking, It writes its lessons slowly in the turning pages of life. A day will come When laughter turns into tears. The echoes of your mockery will return to your own ears like thunder across an empty sky. Situations will arise without warning, storms without hands to beat you Yet heavy enough to break your pride. Pain will arrive quietly, And you will feel the trembling of a heart that once laughed too loudly. And that fool, that funny person you once mocked, may stand in the distance, not laughing, but witnessing your tears, your shaking voice, Your falling ego. For life has a patient way of bending the tallest p...
Humble yourself,
For arrogance is a loud garment
often worn by those
whose pockets carry little substance.
You walk as though the world
spins at the command of your footsteps,
as though crowns of importance
rest invisibly upon your head.
Your voice rises with confidence
of someone who believes
They rule unseen kingdoms.
Yet pause,
and look again at the truth.
You are only a man
among billions of breathing souls,
an ordinary traveler
walking the familiar road of routine.
A worker bound to hours,
answering to the clock
that summons you each morning
and dismisses you each evening.
No empire answers to your name.
No business grows from your hands.
No streams of income flow quietly
through channels of your own creation.
You wait,
like many others,
for the monthly arrival
of a salary that visits briefly,
a guest that knocks, stays a moment,
then disappears into bills, needs,
and the quiet hunger of living.
Yet with this fleeting coin
You boast loudly,
as though wealth has crowned you,
as though your pockets hold
the measure of greatness.
Humble yourself.
For pride built on fragile ground
will crumble under the weight of time.
Remember,
every person walking this earth
is simply human,
a temporary breath beneath the sky,
learning slowly
that humility
is the truest form of dignity.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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