If you tell yourself 'I am graceful' br You may be flooded with a sense of renewed grace br If you break a pure heart but call yourself 'caring' br You may see morning sunshine streaming through your curtains br If you bury the past and spit on it and align yourself with no one br You may tell yourself you feel a new sense of freedom br while basking in your renewed sense of importance br If you've been through the finest schools you may feel bright br and have a sense that you've learned something br If you should go into the chapel and decide it's all hogwash br you might, delightfully knock over a marble statue br that someone crafted from their heart, as well as from stone br emboldened by your new found sense of self-worth br But in your own little world YOU can tell yourself br ANYTHING br And you might believe it...for a time....... br But then you run into something!br br JAMES T.