We Were Not Small or Great but Grown - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

I have not done in my five years what you did in yours

Your twenty-two versus my twenty-nine

I know it does no good comparing lives

But I am such a slow, slow learner

And at times, not at all

Should I stop writing now?

I could give me life to better things

A house, a steady job, a family

Still, I am not sure if I can see myself like that yet

And I am so afraid I never will