What do you want to know about me?
Everything that I did wrong?
or everything that I did right?
To be honest the second list would be much shorter.
I'm not even that good of a person.
I haven't changed the world for the better.
I haven't even changed somebody's life for the better.
I haven't saved a life.
I have done nothing.
I don't inspire people to greatness.
I don't have talent
I'm useless.
And I don't deserve this life.
Others are destined for greatness
Some people deserve more than they have
They deserve their life.
They would have used it for good.
Not wasted it laying around in bed.
I stole something once.
I was eight.
It was a chocolate bar.
It tasted gross.
I don't eat Oh Henry's anymore.
I cheated on tests.
Teachers gave me extensions on assignments because I played the sympathy card.
I told my mom I hated her the day she was told she was going to die.
I told her I hated her because she was going to die
I told her that I hated because I hated that the cancer entered her body.
She felt awful.
I felt even worse.
The Good Die Yong
When it is wet outside I don't feel happy.
And it makes my knee hurt more.
It makes me feel like an 80 year old man with his creaky knee every time it rains
So I don't know if you've ever heard your voice, but that in itself is a talent. And I don't know if you've heard the way your fingers glide over piano keys in magical tones, but that's also a talent. And I don't know if you've heard, but there's this group of four people that sit and listen to you sing and we all smile hugely. (Well, William's tone deaf so he just tries to smile along but he really can't hear how fantastic you are.) You've done a lot for a lot of people, just by writing all kinds of things down. You just might not fully know it, but you're changing lives, William.
ReplyDeleteJust so you know.