Better Than Me

Even better than the old me

Heard that line in a song

Now I'm laying here in bed, slightly sweaty

Wondering if the lyric was wrong

What does it mean to be better than the past?

Mistakes erased, fuck ups no longer counted?

Does the reckoning consider all of the adolescent lessons amounted?

And what of the present, your choices trapped in amber mind?

Frozen in kind, infused with your criticizing self doubt

Are you better than that now or have you just forgotten?