Measure Up
I concede
I’m not that competitive
whether you are the better
isn’t that important to me
I want to be judged
on my merits alone
not on how much
better or worse I may be
compared with anyone
better is relative
who is the winner
the one who comes in first
or the one who finishes the race
on their own terms
I grew up
in a school system
where I learned
I would never measure up
because I wasn’t smart enough
to memorize the times table
smart enough
to regurgitate passages of text books
when I wrote exams
even when I was right
I was given no credit
because my spelling was so wrong
coming out
I learned I would never measure
I was never young enough
buff enough
hung enough
to be desirable enough
in the eyes of those
who I wanted to measure up to
without realizing
I was trying to measure up
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