Pride:

It is also to stand up

for one’s own form of awareness

(for one’s own consciousness),

to take its side—

especially in the face of its temporal limitation.

For one day it will come to an end,

will find its end.

Death meets everyone, sooner or later,

and thus one’s own mode

of awareness fades again from the world.

Yet here and there

it does leave behind

one trace or another.