Expectations

What level do you have to live up to?
What dreams are true and who whispers in your ear?
Creating that fear that freezes you in your footsteps
How much money did Grandma tell you to make
So that they could brag about your victory?
How short did you end up when everyone else played basketball?
Where were you hiding when the camera came out at the party?
Were they really failures when they got you to a healthy, safe place?
What is the embarrassment?
Are you too fat, too dumb, too ugly or just plain slow or do you need multiple crutches
because one might fail and then how would you explain your lack of success?
What are you giving up if you go for it this once?
Really, where will you be if you try to remain safe?
It is time for a reckoning of the things you have done in the preceding years
You may be giving up your only chance to be free of the sled you've been pulling up hill
Let it go, Get up on stage and let them hear your spirit

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