That Thing Around Your Neck

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That thing around your neck

Yes that thing

I see you looking for it

But it rests right on your collar bone

That thing around your neck

The very one you are looking for

It could choke you, you know

You walk with it gallantly

You show it off like a new necklace you just got from the market square

You show the people what you cannot see

That thing around your neck

It’s the one that has belittled the greatest of men

It’s the unheard siren that echoes the destruction to befall the deaf traveler

It’s the thing that makes mere men tread carelessly where angels adorn

That thing

You call it confidence

I call it pride

You modernize it and call it ego

I stay true to wisdom and still call it pride

That thing around your neck

Don’t bother

You won’t see it

If men could hang it like a necklace

They would put it off so easily

The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart

In the matters of the heart

That thing around your neck

Or is it around your neck?