Best in You

When the world seems to be testing you

Circumstance besting in you

Want to just rest, be through

Of those trying to get the best of you

But they don't want the best in you

They want the worst in you

They want you to see the world

In the sordid way they do

Their emptiness deep inside

In vanity they try to hide

The part of them dead and dried

With the mangled altar to their pride

No matter how bad they make you feel

How much they cheat and steal

Their joy will never be real

Let that reinforce your will like steel

For they'll never know the peace you'll know

At the end of each day

From the dastardly lengths they'll go

To get their own way

Their avarice

Ugliness

Cowardice

Vacuous

Web that they've woven

Each curse that they've spoken

Tangles around them

Pulls down to drown them

In looking over their shoulders

Paranoid on their radar

That they'll be mistreated

By someone like they are

So enjoy satisfaction that

They'll never know

They can watch you from where they're at

Achieving your goals

They don't run the same race as you

So you don't have to beat them

Let your own heart be true

While their ugliness eats them

And shake the dust off your shoes

As they recede in the distance

For all that you have to lose

Is left back their with them