For decades I led the loss leader life,
accepted being an 'also ran'
for the gain of those ahead of me
who preferred me to live at some remove.
And I did it so selflessly
that my lack of thought for gain
became integral to how I lived.
I am now too old to be openly told
to ask for less for others to have more.
And what I now have is in my own right
rather than some plan made up by others
for me to less than them for their sake.
What is mine is so now
because my shadow
is all there is to say so.
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