Vanity

The mind has no skin

Yet it’s vanity isn’t thin

It pours into the senses

The mind’s main defenses

The face on the inside

It cannot be modified

By neither pride nor vanity

It’s the silent side of humanity

If nature displayed vanity

Humanity would atrophy

Nature is simple and plain

Such beauty we can attain

Ego’s salve is vanity

It covers a life led callously

When we shed vanity’s hide

Our true nature is magnified