Second-Rate Colossus [Free Verse]

Bibi ka Maqbara; Aurangabad

What a thing it is to be 
   trapped under a shadow.

To be grand,
  but not the grandest.

To be old,
  but not the oldest.

To argue your distinction,
  but be too similar to avoid 
   comparison to the marvel.

Better to be a shoddy original
 than a second-rate colossus. 

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