Hi
My middle name is inadequacy.

Don't ask for the first and last
because i
can't
provide
that.

I am the less than sign,
projecting
something greater -
an aspiration that you will never be.

I am every
'almost,'
'could have,'
'let down.'

I am in the settling.
I breathe out disappointment.
I forget to be better.

There is one good and one bad thing about me.
Both of them are
Hope.

It makes me and breaks you -
the anticipation.