Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
Dominance of Inner Self
Oh ye of self-importance
Have you woken from your delusion?
Look beyond your nose at the stance
Of those whose prancing is a vision
Of artifice, arbitrary, and filled
With self-adulation, when one needs
To look within, the core of what’s valued,
As strengths while weaknesses need to be gutted,
As nourishment needs to reach its potential
With the potence that will change
One’s failings into successes partial
To the susurations of peers, who range
In perceptions and influence,
Impose their views without consideration
Of whether their eminence
Will disrupt your self-worth, contrition
As guilt’s oppressive weight
Demeans your self-acceptance
Entailing despair is at the height
Of its influence if not for the persistence
Of your self-belief in your
Power to overcome obstacles
Thrown at you through life’s poor
Journey of building the inner self.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 