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Fall From Grace

by Amanda J Cobb

The grandeur has fallen from grace,
the elite discarded,
shattered by the reality
that their status means nothing.
Now they worry,
for in the real world
personality is what counts -
and their egos destroyed that long ago.

11/23/1999

Posted on 09/22/2001
Copyright © 2024 Amanda J Cobb

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by D. Xavier Bari on 01/20/03 at 09:37 PM

It's amazing all the faces one can see on the way back down. The faces that have long since been forgotten, but in their eyes one can see the memory of every slight they ever felt--with just a hint of glee that they're no longing gazing upward.

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