Living in your shadow, with the guilt of what you did

Everyday I battle, suffering from your sins

I pray for the day when someone walks up to me, and says:

“How do you do,” and not “You look like my friend”

Since the day I was born, I have always been told

I look just like you, just a little less old

Do you want to know how that makes me feel?

Like a monster, a clone, wishing I was not real

I’ve got your sad eyes, so void of any emotion

Except yours are sick-green; mine the color of the ocean

A ghost of you, when I gaze into my reflection

The hardships of my life; another one of your “lessons”

I dread the words, “You’re just like him,”

Only by our blood, are we kin

The difference between us, is I’ll learn from your mistakes

And unlike you, I don’t find life as something to waste

You had the smarts to succeed, but now it is too late

And with your last name, I’ll achieve something great