The writing on the wall

It's yelling at me

It's screaming at me

"Be the best that you can be!"

But the best is never enough for me.

The mirror hanging across from me

It gazes back at me

It horrifies me

I see a person I don't want to see

That image does not show me.

My grades on the computer screen

They shame me

They humiliate me

"Be the smartest they'll ever see!"

But that term will never describe me.

The size of my jeans

I let it define me

I let it demean me

Into a person I should never be

That number is not me.

All these things I will never be

my grades, my image

the size of my jeans

The only of these I can be is me.