She should

She should be an alcoholic She should be dead She should be lost She should be deranged She should be crazy She should be in an abusive relationship She should be bulimic She should be in poverty She should be collecting welfare She should be pregnant She should be But she is me And she is more than what they said They made their premonitions Their bets Their decisions They did not just doubt her They wished her unwell They wanted her to be trapped up Entranced by the spell Of alcohol Drugs Sex Procrastination But she knew her origin Was not her destination So….she cried She screamed She worked She tried her hardest And when she thought she had hit her farthest Point And worked as hard as she could Something happened that she didn’t expect would Her work far exceeded others expectations And so she found herself farther than what she thought would be her final destination Its one thing to cross the finish line Its another to cross and win another race at the same time She realized that she had surpassed the expectations she had for herself ‘And there was no reason to hang her work up on a shelf She had to keep going She had to excel So that the naysayers that resided inside of her head Would once and for all finally be put to bed