you're significant

I wonder if sometimes thinking I'm significant to other people does me any good.

I wonder sometimes

how I felt 

before I was 

made to believe

I was significant

when I was little

I wrote a poem

for class 

and 

I had thought

it was good

that I was good

but, in the end,

another child 

won the award 

for the best poem

I was sure 

I would win

that brilliance 

didn't belong to me

not yet

I was told

but 'if not now,

when?'

I was told 

I was significant 

and that I only needed 

to prove myself

I am older now 

and I am told 

I have proven myself 

and other people

are winning the awards 

I was told 

would be mine 

I wonder sometimes 

how I felt 

before I was told 

I was significant.