'On A Pedestal' Poem by Linda Winchell

Please don't place me on a pedestal
Of which I'm afraid I might fall off.
Don't place me so high above my capabilities
for it will be too much of a cost, if lost.

It is hard to stand where you want me to
although from here I can see much clearer.
But if I fall from this pedestal you've placed me on
your expectaions of me may seem less dearer.

Some seem to want to live their lives
in whom they've chosen to live them in.
But your chance has passed, of the lines in life you've cast
and can never be in anothers, life lived in.