Competition

 

I consider the best and the least

I have to offer,

and still I question.

what do I have left in me for today?

Is it even worth my trying?

After all, I’m only competing with

myself.

This will be the one I have to write,

the one I have to offer.

It will be the only poem I write today.

It will be the best of poems I have

for today.

I will allow yesterday and tomorrow

to speak for themselves.

I have come to realize,

life and poetry are just that way.

This is not a race to the end.

            -30-

Chris Hanch 6-1-2021