A/N Hello!! I'd just like to say that this is the first poem I've put on here (it's quite scary!!). I'm normally more of a story-writing person, so I really don't know why I've randomly started writing poems (maybe I'm possessed!!). Anyway, I'd really, really like to know what people think, since I honestly don't know how good it is (probably not very good, but we'll have to wait and see). Anyway. Enjoy, and please please please review!! Thanks! XD

I am the straw hut,

You are the brick house.

I the ant,

Small, ugly, stupid,

You the giraffe,

Tall, beautiful, graceful.

Better are you

Than the elephant,

Large and clumsy,

Easily scared.

Not even a mouse am I,

Not good enough;

Better you at one thing

I cannot.

On the ladder of life,

You are forever above me,

Just on rung,

But still above me,

Always slightly better.

Though I strive to reach up

And climb beside you

Your foot slips

And though you keep your balance

Your perfection

It hits my hand

As I struggle

I have no balance,

No perfection,

To keep

You do not notice

I crash to the ground

Shattered

For people to tread upon

And walk over

And break.

You didn't mean to

You didn't know

Perhaps you thought that

I climbed beside you

I didn't

I don't now

For I

Am shattered.