Poetry & Self-Awareness

They see you doing better and they start to criticize

Not understanding all the pain that you went through

Every time you wanted to be happy, the feeling got denied

Fought your fears so hard to survive

They start a case against you and don’t give you the chance to testify

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Identifying all your mistakes, minimizing all your hard work

Never satisfied no matter how hard you try

Analyzing all the wrong decisions you ever made

Hypnotized in trying to make you feel like you don’t belong

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Therefore let me be specific

I had many demons inside, it’s hard to describe but I killed them one by one until I finally felt alive

I didn’t go through all this trouble to please you, her or him

I did it for me, for my state of mind

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