Do People Take You Seriously

When inside my own mind,

I’ll wrestle with questions.

How do I judge me,

Against another.

We see it in our lives,

On the city street,

Walking up a set of stairs.

We all somehow want to know,

Are we of any serious merit,

Or perhaps we live our lives 

Like everyone around us.

We just have a need to pay attention

I guess,

To find what it is we know others

Have been, a step ahead aware.