The day is hot, but I'm cold inside <br />With all this I'm trying to hide <br />I'm calculating an equation <br />As to your recent evasion <br />No matter how I rearrange <br />Each factor, there is nothing strange <br />Just painfully plain the ending sum <br />No, I am not the Golden One <br />You do not favor me like her <br />It is my value you deter <br />I do not smile quite like she does <br />I don't hold on to what once was <br />I do not keep up with your books <br />I do not worry 'bout my looks <br />I cut my hair if it suits me <br />My hair's not long like hers, you see <br />My eyes are plain, much like my face <br />And though we both lack proper grace <br />She is much funnier than I <br />All I can seem to do is try <br />We both hold down our steady jobs <br />But somehow hers still comes on top <br />I hate her, hate her! Can't you see! <br />She's incomparable to me! <br />I'm smarter, I'm going somewhere <br />I'm just waiting for you to care <br />I'm trying hard to be the best <br />But it won't work; it's too much stress <br />Is it so bad to want a life <br />I work hard; I pay my tithe <br />I don't do things to make you shamed <br />I am hardly one to be blamed! <br />So as I sit here, wondering how <br />To make it through, I so avow <br />That someday I will make you see... <br />The one superior...not her...is me.<br /><br />Amanda Saveley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/comparisons-are-overrated/
