Spell It Out

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Can I be

Anything

Other than this?

Am I

Limited

By my

Uselessness?

My inability to

Succeed?

Will I always feel

Less

Than?

How do I

Stop

This cycle?

How can I make

You

Proud?

How many

Times

Can I

Apologize?

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I Wish

I wish you’d told me I could do anything.

I wish you’d said I could write a book,

Or that I could be a famous artist.

I wish you’d said that you’d love me no matter what,

And that my future wouldn’t affect how you’d feel.

I wish you’d told me it’s okay to not make a lot of money,

That I didn’t have to marry a rich guy.

I wish you hadn’t made fun of my future so much,

Or joked about my life all the time.

I wish you’d told me I was beautiful,

That I was special.

I wish you’d told me I was smart,

No matter what my grades said.

I wish you’d say sorry to me when you yelled at me,

I wish you’d hugged me when I cried.

I wish you’d given me your support,

In everything I did.

I wish you’d told me I could do anything.

 

Yeah, I wish.

 

Family

I would always hear my friends complain,

About their annoying

Little sister,

Or their jerk of an

Older brother.

So I didn’t feel

I was missing 

Out.

But now,

I’m older,

And so are my friends.

Their annoying little sister,

Stood up for them one day;

She took her sisters hand,

And told her family sticks

Together.

And that jerk of an older 

Brother,

Held his sister’s hand,

And rubbed her back as she

Cried,

Over the jerk of a guy who

Broke her heart;

He told her he would do

Anything

For her, because families stick

Together.

I have no older brother,

Or younger sister.

I don’t have a puppy,

Or a kitty.

I have my big empty house,

Filled with presents and toys,

A spoiled only child;

That’s what I am.

So I sit in my home,

And I hold my teddy bear,

Tight.

And I whisper to him:

It’s okay if it’s cold,

And it’s okay if it’s empty;

I’ve got all the family 

I need, right here with me.

And I bury my head

In his tiny little neck,

And I tell him I love him,

And I tell him it’s okay,

And I tell him I would do

Anything for him,

Because we are a family,

And families

Stick

Together.