The Chump PSA

When I met you

You didn’t know anything

About cutting puppet strings

and boot lacing

and walking with horizon bound eyes

And now,

I don’t know you

thick chest stuck out

Preening and philosophizing

About what I should do with myself

Ten years to the day

You had no life ambition

And much like a muse

I coaxed one into you

And ten years later my repayment

your advice about how I need

to find a calling

a purpose

a true love to feel complete

is like listening to my old self

tell myself what I used to do…

But as then and as now,

I have surpassed you in every way

and the life lessons I taught you

I have already thrown away

So you keep staying two steps behind

With two sides to your face

You would have nothing now

If you hadn’t met me in the first place….