ROOT OF PRIDE

Intelligence can be the root of pride

Your subtle thoughts can take you for a ride

Become a fool, as foolishness is pure

But not the kind of fool who’s immature

And makes his dignity a puerile jest.

Negate your intelligence and invest

All faith and reason in the loving Friend

Who is reason’s beginning and its end

Submit yourself to Him, the Friend’s caress

Can lead the damned out of their wilderness