Pretentiousness

Call it penchant-to-be-one-rung-better personality, 

or whatever - doesn’t matter, we see its roots in a 

belief we can do anything, there’s no impediment 

not in singular views you are as good as any who 

ever did it; you’re driven by infallible confidence - 

self-view springing from sense of self-worth that 

you’re as good as the best, yet queasiness rises 

still to test each endeavour; its a dour challenge 

You’ll get used to proving you’re human they say, 

a throwback to olden days, where all things were 

in consideration tho in the meaning of sameness, 

so one didn’t say - that’s not the way to do it for a 

sociability of prudent reasoning; you do it properly 

to be seen & acknowledged with the nod, that’s a 

Sanctioned yes it fits okay - achievement earned; 

but measurement of what’s technical rests warily 

outside sense & sensibility, appending inequality 

reasoned views you are not who you claim to be 

because you didn’t clasp the cognoscenti’s hand 

with the proper grip to prove that you knew it too 

© 2 January 2016, I. D. Carswell