The other half

While half of me is satisfied,
the other groans in pain.
The one does leap through sunshine
as the other loafs in rain.

=P
---

The one is glad he did so well
on Wednesday morning's test.
The other screams and tugs his hair
for failing all the rest.

So glad's the half that now has found
a method to succeed:
To read once through the lesson plans
is all you really need.

But angry is the second half.
Why had the first not thought
of this before? The plans were in
plain sight... were they not?

---

They were, indeed, but this does not
deflate the brighter half.
He closes up his Physics book
and notes and starts to laugh.

He's laughing at the problem set
he finished off so fast-
In fact, when pencil left his hand
not twice an hour had passed!

But laugh does not the second half
whose eyelids barely part.
It's four A.M! Why did you wait
'till two to lastly start?

---

The first, unfazed, conserves his glee
and then begins to speak.
Well anyhow, I think I gained
twelve levels just this week!


YOU KEPT ME UP FOR STUPID GAMES?!?!?!
The first can not but nod.
THERE'S MORE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE...
LIKE SLEEP, FOR ONE, BY GOD!!

The first just shrugs, while smiling still.
The second's rage burns bright.
But it's too late; I go to bed,
and turning off the light,

...I tell the warring halves to save this for another night.