Average

A soul among six billion,
A face lost in the crowd.
A sand grain on a shoreline,
A droplet in a cloud.

Survival of the fittest,
Culling of the weak;
But will you die unspoken
If you're neither base nor peak?

I was never best at racing,
I've not been in Top Ten
Exams I'm always midway,
Still failing now and then;

There's always people better,
There's always people worse;
There's always someone speedier
Who wrote their thoughts in verse.

"We're best in different areas!"
Or so the saying goes,
But there's always better people
Always wearing better clothes;

Better artists! Better writers!
Better students, bestest friends!
Better thinkers, better speakers,
Better stuff of odds and ends;

Better know-it-alls and leaders,
Better runners, swimmers, sleepers;
Better programmers and heralds,
Better sowers, better reapers;

And it's not just the betters-
That's just one half the curse;
You conscience also knows that
You're better off than worse;

Worser artists, worser writers;
Worser students, worst of friends!
Worser thinkers, Worser speakers,
Worser than can make amends;

Worse idiots and worse followers,
Worse bouncers, jokers, talkers;
Worse heretics and lovers;
Worse players, worser stalkers.

So when you're just plain average,
The loner in between;
You'll never stand out anyway:
Perhaps you're just plain mean.

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Hui Jun is influencing me to write poems. o_o And, ha, I mentioned him again, so he's going to freak out. Again. Ha. XD

If you can't spot the pun in the last line something is seriously wrong with you.

Recent astrological evidence shows that one in twelve people is compatible with your personality!
The Edna Man