Oh, how I suffer
with righteous indignation,
feeling so correct
in the face of others' wrongs!
(Yet sensing clearly
I'm the one who's smarting!)
Until, in humility, I see
another's self-assertion
can't intimidate or offend me.
It's only my reaction
that calls for being squelched!
And so I hold in thought
the true idea—man—
in place of error's farce
until no pushy mortal's left
to elicit indignation
and self-righteousness dissolves
in the joy of knowing God.
