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So long I’ve been selfish,

Only concerned

With my desires,

My happiness.



Now I want to

Please everyone

That I’m feeling myself

Whittling away to nothing.



You can’t make everyone happy;

One’s happiness is usually

At the expense of another’s.



Everyone is relying on me too much:

To do what’s right,

To say what’s right,

To think what’s right.



But the pressure’s building

And I’m crashing down.



I’m losing my patience;

I’m feeling I need to be

More assertive in my actions,

While still being caring.



But it’s so hard;

It’s so complicated

This web of false fulfillment.



I cannot keep this up;

I’m cracking under the weight

And I’m not strong enough

To hold up my face.



I’m dying because

You’re suffocating me.

I’m warring with myself

Because I try to keep the peace.



But it’s getting me nowhere;

Everytime I try to please you,

It backfires because you hate me for it.



At some point,

I just have to give up

And give in to the only One

Who can tell me what to do.