(Jealousy is fairly common. Definitely felt that way many times after working hard and getting no results. One of my sloppier poems because I just let the words flow until I felt like I couldn’t go any further)
Why does your success
Make me sad
When we
Have never met
I read
About your victory
And simply
Grind my teeth
In anguish
And pain
Jealousy
Plain
And seething
You achieved
What I
Always wanted
Leaving me
To wonder
Why you
And not me
Our stories
Seem so similar
Wanting
From a young age
Pushing
Through rejection
Battling
The blackening despair
And you prevailed
While I fell
It is not you
That I can blame
For we
Have never met
It is me
I see your path
And realize
I should have gone left
Instead of right
I only have myself to blame
Legends of Windemere 
I think it’s just serendipity!
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Word doesn’t get used enough.
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I totally get this!! I felt the same way when I had a book signing years ago on the same day as another woman. People flocked to her book table. That was ten years ago. Her book is still out (the anniversary edition of it recently released) while mine is out of print. I am not knocking her book. I actually love it like others do.
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Wow. I’m always surprised when such double bookings occur. Too bad they can’t have it be a team up.
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Hindsight is a great thing. I wish it could be improved so it would work ahead of time. Super poem, Charles
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Thanks. Be nice to have some clairvoyance.
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I think it’s natural to feel some resentment when another author gets so much attention and their book just doesn’t seem that good. What matters is how you handle your emotions.
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Very well said. Tough though since many authors are emotional creatures.
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