I spent years wondering why i never meet your expectations,
how i can fail time and time again,
how you put so little trust in me and yet you never cease to be disappointed,
it's almost as if you revel in my humiliation,
i spent years trying to be perfect,
changing myself to better suit the daughter you wanted,
but you still undermined me,
and helped me dig a grave for all my dreams,
i finally realize that my life is not determined by you,
only my happiness,
and living the lie i believed you wanted brought no release from this torture,
so now I'm stronger and have decided to be the me i was born,
that makes me happy,
the me i truly am inside.
