Do You Measure Up Poem by Paul Warren

The phrase that keeps repeating
And it never was at all fleeting
Do you measure up they said
This was to him a phrase of dread

For the others would just snicker
And each time it changed in measure
Is what he would take away
Trying hard to want to stay

So each day there was no relaxation
And even when he won there was no elation
For the tasks would be set again
And do you measure up, was not a friend.

© Paul Warren Poetry