"Between 2 and 1"

I seek a chasm far less great,

Than losers' spite and a winner's hate

I do not know a worse success

Than being known as second best

Shakespeare had a rival

Whose name I did not know

For the plays he'd written

Time would dare not show

If I am runner up

History makes no note

If I am forgotten

So too my vote

If I am speechless

Goodbye, immortality

If I am dead
So I remain
If I do not die number one
I'll go insane.