Pedestal

Pedestal

At best, a tribute justification;

At worst, cursed for failing to satisfy.


You rise above the others in my life,

And yet I struggle to emulate you.


The best and the worst is too hard to bear.

Perhaps we're better on the same level.


Author note:
A Doublet poem: The Doublet has twenty syllables, divided over two lines containing up to five stanzas.

6 lines, 64 word count