What Number Are You?
7.10.2017
When you look in a mirror
What number do you see?
A 2 sees a 5
Clears space on the shelf
For trophies it will never win
A 5 sees a 2
Thinks less of itself
Won’t believe it can ever win
Neither will do
Don’t be a 5 or a 2
Think you see one
Then please look again
When you look in a mirror
What number are you?
If a 3, 4, 6, 7 or 9
Find you have it backwards
All of the time
You either think things are great
Or not so very fine
Only to find your fate
On the other side
Of the number line
But 0, 1 or 8
Though they may have it right
Not necessarily great
The 0 sees nothing
Looks back with regret
At the life never lived
At the people never met
The 1 sees it’s best
But it goes to their head
Jumps every hurdle
Passes every test
But can’t get past the ego
Inflating its head
But the 8
Oh, the 8
Sees them self
For who they are
For the 8 sees an 8
And to it
They can relate
They do their best
At being an 8, then
Push ideas of perfection
To the outer rim
To attain that
They know
They’d have to be a 10
But they are happy with
The state of 8 they are in
When you look in a mirror
What number do you see?
What number are you?
Is it the number that you see?
It may or may not be