Thank you for being super supporters and for listening to my poems. I humbly bow to you all!
For fun, I also recorded a “slam-ish” version of the poem.
I would love to hear what you think of both versions.
And here is the text of the poem, again, in case you want to read along, read it aloud, or share it with a friend.
Humble Warrior
By Corie Feiner To be humble is to be of this earth with its soil, water, and air along with its need to crack and shake and break and burn and grow over and over again. To be humble is to stand in a way I have never stood before, to bind my arms behind my back as I bow as close to the ground as I can, humble knowing we have all won and lost so many battles and that one day, we will learn to stop fighting everything including ourselves, and that we will hold our legs steady even if they shake as we face everything we have ever feared and say, I am soil, I am dust, I am me, I am you. To be humble is to open th…