i’m not enough

for who i once was, this is for you:

i’m not good enough.

never will i hear that

i was born to succeed.

i’ll always prove that

i can’t be as good as others,

so don’t tell me

that my best is good.

i have learned

that hard work does not matter.

it’s a lie

that my failures create character

and you know what? i know 

that my goals are too big.

i’ll never accept that

i’ll make the world a better place.

i’m telling you

i’m a waste of time.

i won’t let anyone think 

I am enough.

(now read from bottom to top/reverse)

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I guess to everyone that reads this, I pressume you can tell this poem comes from a very personal place. It comes from a place of pain and immeasurable self-doubt. But let me tell you something, life doesn't discriminate between the good and the bad, it just hits everyone. So when life hits you with lemons, take them and throw 'em back at life.

and to all who are reading this, please remember that you are not a bystander in your own life. You are so much and inexcplicably more. There is a life you haven't lived yet and people you haven't met. Don't live your life like a prequel. Just don't. Becuase i'm not going to sit here and tell you that it'll be worth it in the end, becuase I don't know that for a fact. What I do know is that the fight itself will be worth it in the end. The way it shapes you and cuts you, leaves a mark, a story and it sure as hell makes you strong. So... final remarks? Let it hurt today as long as you get up tomorrow, and remember that the fight is, and will always be, worth it.