then

 
 
it’s not how  
clever  
you think  
 
you are  
 
but how you are  

that matters  
pertaining  
to which  
 
I only mention  
because I  
know  
 
it only takes me  
so far  
 
as now  
 
I think  
 
I was never as clever  
 
as when  
 
I was ten