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If your word can overshadow mine
Are you more?
If your heart can show more grace than mine
Are you better?
If the light in your eyes is softer than mine
Are you best?
If living comes easy for you
If breathing is nothing to you
A beating heart never a thought
Are you more?

Are your tears saltier than mine?
Do you understand the passage of time?
If you think with your heart more than your mind
Are you more, are you best, are you better?

If anger is not the fastest felt
If frustration under wraps
If voice well modulated
If temper quietly released
Are you better?

Truly, the questions meant to pose no threat
Nonetheless, these questions must be met
Not with slight of eyes and huff of breath
Truly, do you feel that you are best?

Truly is your impatience only for me
Am I the only and biggest flaw you see?
Put your honest answers to the tongue
And see if there is damage to be done.

Will you answer gracefully with calm,
No raw emotion left to do the job?
Will you find me less than what you thought
And leave me here, in the midst of war, unsought?

Smugly, now you shake this from your shoe
Return to life as easily as you do
Find that all are waiting there for you

Narrowed eyes to flit in my direction
Casting mental judgement without question
You: the hero.
I: the fool for asking.