Good Enough

A poem by Writerial.

​I try; I fail.
They climb; they scale.
And I'll never be good enough.
They soar; they fly.
I fall; I die.
And it'll never be enough.
There's a difference between
fearing that you'll fail
and fearing that you'll never succeed.
I don't fear being rejected once, 
I fear being rejected forever.
I fear that no matter how many tears,
No matter how many years
I put into trying to succeed,
I'll still fail.
Over and over.
Until I die.
And I tell myself that it couldn't happen.
That anyone who puts this much work
Into something
Couldn't just fail.
I could be wrong.
I've been great at most things.
Math, English, things that won't stay.
But for my dreams "great" isn't okay
I have to be extraordinary,
Be everything I want to be.
But what if that measure
isn't what I can be?