<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425454" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Is Second Best Just Jest Test or Unjust Protest Gest?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When second best protests against dire chance<br>he or she echoes stress at life's twist dance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Self-confidence is put to sorry test, <br>ambitions, on the shelf, are laid to rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inadequacy often will deny<br>the will to try, succeed, luck's lies decry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They also serve, who only stand and wait'<br>survivor said, regretting callous fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They also serve who wait without the gate'<br>time-server grates, perceiving patron's pate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What service, light denied, anticipate? '<br>'Light - despite paradoxical life's plate! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They're served, who only put on weight, expand, <br>whose judgement lies, so heavy on the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They swerve from justice, who, with heavy hand, <br>pervert the law- for which they should be damned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wait, who only seem to serve and stand, <br>beware! banned revolution is at hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To stand and wait in life to some seems nice <br>to taste of time, like salad, lacking spice! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When dream of self esteem turns rancid, raw, <br>apologies tears crocodile soon pour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor too is mind that looks behind not for<br>top flight successes, recognized, in store.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fresh opportunities are infinite, <br>no need to mope, scorn hope, of goals lose sigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What second best may seem at any time<br>can role-reverse distress, blessed see self climb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425454" data-title="Is Second Best Just Jest Test or Unjust Protest Gest? de Jonathan Robin" data-description="When second best protests against dire chance he or she echoes stress at life's twist dance. Self-confidence is put to sorry test, ambitions, on the shelf, are laid to rest. Inadequacy often will deny the will to try, succeed, luck's lies decry..."></div> </div> </div>

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