Poetry: The empty shell has emptied itself of you. Have you of it?

The shell must be left and moved on from for us to be free.
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
December 29, 2018 9:34pm CST
The humble cannot be humble without being honest too. The proud are proud because of the dishonesty they live from. A proud person is full of deceit and lies, they just denies. A humble person lives without a supply of such cries from glass eyes. Humility builds on its mattress of love and softness thereof. The proud are building on rocky crevices, full of holes. The empty are not usually empty of anything empty, as they are full of their trying to be empty, unless they are souls. Our soul fills us up with itself, connecting us purely to God. When we deny ourself this conection to something higher, we are empty shells, living without the one that was inside. We are no more the shell, than we are not our soul. We are. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com The shell must be left, and moved on from, for us to be free.
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• New Delhi, India
30 Dec 18
Can I say it is a poem?
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
30 Dec 18
Yes, it is my humble attempt at one.
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• New Delhi, India
30 Dec 18
@innertalks You won
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
30 Dec 18
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@Shiva49 (28406)
• Singapore
31 Dec 18
Humility is a good trait and is also a nice foundation to build on. Ego and deceit go before a fall like pride. But humility lends itself to godliness. Love and compassion should follow humility as the latter is not an end by itself - siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
31 Dec 18
I have heard it said that only the humble can experience full joy too. They are content with living, and happy in their living despite their many hardships.
@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
1 Jan 19
@Shiva49 Agreed, greed destroys all agreements.
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@Shiva49 (28406)
• Singapore
1 Jan 19
@innertalks Yes, Steve, I have seen the trend "the more we have, the more we want". We should know to draw the line between our needs and wants. Greed acts like a cancer in society - siva
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@Courage7 (19626)
• United States
4 Jan 19
A very good bunch of words here Steve..I can totally get them. Thank you so much.
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@Courage7 (19626)
• United States
4 Jan 19
@innertalks Yes I have not been able to do so.