you placed me on that pedestal
and watched your vicarious ego
as it drifted through the ocean holding fast and tight
through the midnight waves
tumbling with the girl of your dreams
and all you had to do
and all you ever needed
was to remove me from that lofty perch
the one that i never could be fully expected
to meet
and start placing yourself on it
and stop living vicariously
through someone with so little