Vanity Of Vanities Poem by Paul Sebastian

Vanity of Vanities
By Paul Sebastian

Pride, homologous with vanity
Embellished by praise, adulation and admiration
Heart and soul pride-fed into insanity
Devoid of humility, lacking spiritual education
Vanity of vanities!

Pride cloaks the truth
Cleverly disguises heart's intensions
Shunts unmasking, revealing proof
Donning devil's spirit of deception
Oh, spirit of vanity!

Pride precedes a fall
Haughty heart enthrones before destruction
Stands on a slippery wall
Foolishly scale, to face other side, humiliation
Short-lives, parading vanity!

Pride born of guilt, anger and bitterness
Self-exalted, pays anything for vain-glory
Unabashedly, vexing spirit's goodness
Its relatives are jealousy and envy
Vanity suffers its own self-exile!

Pride, that protean thing!
Character of all haughty hearts
Dressed in poor man's rags or rich man's clothing
Never win a crown; honour departs
Pride seated high on heart's throne
Oh, vanity of vanities, where's your abode?
Pride is an abomination of God
Serpent-seduced Eve ate the Fruit of Knowledge
Eden banished, by man's own rout
Prayer of the proud God would not acknowledge
Oh! Vanity, where has your fate run?
Alas! Pride what have you done?

Pride's death, no one mourns
Your life lived in wicked vanity
Haughty heart, Hades born
You suffer Hell for all eternity!

25.4.2017