Death by Comparison

Be more

Like your sister and smile

Be more

Like your brother and talk

Be more

Like them, smarter

Be more

Like us, better

Be more

Of yourself, don't imitate

But I cannot

Be myself

And also

Be everyone else

I am never enough

Not for you

Or for him

Or for anyone

The tendency to disappoint is in my veins

And I cannot escape it no matter how I try

I cannot be them and

I cannot be me and

It's beginning to seem that

If I wasn't

Wasn't anything

Things would be okay.