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Array ( [sid] => 47412 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Can't Compare [time] => 2004-05-13 19:59:47 [hometext] => Have you ever felt.. well.. not good enough? [bodytext] => Conversations, going nowhere
Jealousy, can’t compare
Can’t you see
Just how badly
I yearn to be
Just like you

Avoidant, blank stare
Pretending, I don’t care
Feigning happiness
I must suppress
Feelings of distress
Can’t I be just like you?

A sour face
Try to erase
Feelings of disgrace
When I’m near you

Feeling, unneeded
Pleas, unheeded
Never, succeeded
At being just like you

How do you think
That makes me feel?
You already look so good
I know I can’t compare

What do you think
I undergo each day?
You already know you look good
And I know I can’t compare
Can’t compare

It’s so unfair
I can’t compare
You get
All you want
Whenever you want

And me?
I get
I get nothing

Nothing but heartache
Nothing but powerful feelings
Of anger
Of jealousy
Of envy

Feelings
Of resignation
Because I know
I know
I can’t compare [comments] => 3 [counter] => 184 [topic] => 30 [informant] => blackmarker [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 7 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => PoemsonBeauty )

Can't Compare

Contributed by blackmarker on Thursday, 13th May 2004 @ 07:59:47 PM in AEST
Topic: PoemsonBeauty

Conversations, going nowhere
Jealousy, can’t compare
Can’t you see
Just how badly
I yearn to be
Just like you

Avoidant, blank stare
Pretending, I don’t care
Feigning happiness
I must suppress
Feelings of distress
Can’t I be just like you?

A sour face
Try to erase
Feelings of disgrace
When I’m near you

Feeling, unneeded
Pleas, unheeded
Never, succeeded
At being just like you

How do you think
That makes me feel?
You already look so good
I know I can’t compare

What do you think
I undergo each day?
You already know you look good
And I know I can’t compare
Can’t compare

It’s so unfair
I can’t compare
You get
All you want
Whenever you want

And me?
I get
I get nothing

Nothing but heartache
Nothing but powerful feelings
Of anger
Of jealousy
Of envy

Feelings
Of resignation
Because I know
I know
I can’t compare

Copyright Â© blackmarker ... [ 2004-05-13 19:59:47]
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Re: Can't Compare (User Rating: 1 )
by ShadowDaughter on Thursday, 13th May 2004 @ 08:04:30 PM AEST
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Yes, I have indeed, and rather a lot . . . an emotion which this poem captures perfectly. The bit "can't I be just like you?"-- well, somehow, the way it was put just made it sound so right . . . almost hopeless yet eager and with a desparate yearning . . . very well written.

--Nora

Re: Can't Compare (User Rating: 1 )
by Pyrofungus on Thursday, 13th May 2004 @ 08:18:55 PM AEST
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this is really good.....I know how you feel....no one can compare to anyone remember that! Infact I wrote something about that! It's called The Fight To Be Like You....yeah but try to just be yourself and not like anyone else! your yourself not "them"!
Summer

Re: Can't Compare (User Rating: 1 )
by UnfallenTears on Thursday, 13th May 2004 @ 08:34:58 PM AEST
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Very nice write. You did a good job of making the emotion in the poem overtake the reader. Awesome work.

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