SELF PORTRAIT

(Luke 18: 9-14)

All he ever does is talk,
just talk, talk, talk ...
just, talk, talk, talk about himself.

Honestly, that’s all he ever does.
He keeps on talking about himself.
It’s always, “I .... I .... I ....”

“Well, I did this.”
“Well, I did that.”
“Well, Iiiiiiiii wouldn’t say that.”

And we, the non-I’s, in his eye,
keep asking behind his back:
“Why so many ‘I’s?”

Is he blind in his I?
Doesn’t he ever see us
talking about him?

Or am I the blind one,
laughing inwardly, thanking God,
“He’s the blind one, not I?”

© Andrew Costello