Winning
One of us will be the winner,
it could be you.
You get the big house with its walled-in acres.
You get the perfect genes and stay healthy
and good-looking all your long life.
You get the recognition you deserve
or do not deserve but you succeed.
You have the perfect family
the luck, the inherited wealth.
Then again you may be just good
at being you, and you made it
because you worked hard to win
and you did.
I have no envy.
I should like to try being you,
but for now
being me is not so much a loss.
I am not convinced that winning
is winning, or to lose is to lose.
Nevertheless,
one of us is winning,
it could be you.
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