Contest Entry

Blinds the eyes of its bearers.
Dumbs their ears to the cry of the needy.
Wilts their hands, that they cannot lift others up.
Clogs their noses to their own stink,
and dries the tongue so that it swells and is refrained from speaking wisdom.

Treat it, each in his own person,
As a malformation of the heart,
And dose daily with the elixir of charity,
Swallow your own pride,
And place your fellow creature on the pedestal that you would stand on.