To perceive others’ flaws
Is much easier than
To perceive one’s own, as
Doing so would mean
To encounter the actual self, that’s
More cruel, more nastier
More hypocritical, more unhinged
Than the perceived self
In the depths of self lies
All the buried “unacceptable” thoughts
Yet one’s self-perception
As an ideal to be emulated, is
What keeps humanity going!