The Want of Acceptance

I've known hardships:

I've known hardships as as bad as wanting to feel accepted.

My want has grown stronger that the love of a mother to a child.

I changed the way I dressed when hope wasn't a silly thing.

I built up my strength just for it to be knocked down like the Tower of Babel.

I have thought I wasn't good enough to to realize I was more than good enough.

I have heard both good and bad things about myself in many bitter-sweet harmonies.

I've known the want of being accepted:

Agonizingly, absent. acceptance.

My want has grown stronger than the love of a mother to a child.