Envy

It is a sin to envy It is petty to envy It is wrong to envy I know this And yet I envy And have contempt for myself For envying I tell myself I should not envy And tell myself I really do not envy I do understand Each has his life and its sorrows Each no matter how great will die My situation is only my situation And everyone else better off or worse off Is not me- I understand I try not to envy Perhaps one day I will be able to heed my own lesson Envy hurts after all It is a pang of humiliation I should not envy I will try to envy less Perhaps I will-