Love, Hope, Trust, Believe

August 16, 2014

It's because I feel a need to live up to this standard

A bar set by my elders,

To make them proud,

To be successful,

And to always strive for more

That I feel as if my self-worth is not grand

On the outside there's a young women, who stands four feet eleven inches from the ground

On the inside, lives that young women whose height reaches the sky

There is more that I believe I can accomplish

But if I let myself feel as though everything I do in the present,

Is only for the future to fix the past,

Then what does the present mean to me?

I have learned to love and to find hope in places I've never looked

I have learned to trust and believe in things I never knew

I have learned that none of us have control,

That we exist among one another,

And that we must love and appreciate one another,

For who we are now.

The person I am inside has come out because I,

Believe, because I,

Hope, because I,

Have let myself,

Be myself.

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