We kept guessing,
We kept dreaming,
We stopped glowing,
And started fading.
We forgot to love ourselves
While loving someone else.
We forgot to treat ourselves right
While pleasing a world
That never cared to treat us right.
Their expectations of us
Ran higher than our own.
The moment you slip or fall,
You’re left to suffer alone.
You belong to no one’s clan,
Yet you give everything you can
To satisfy their demands.
You have been alone
All this while.
You forgot your own home
In pursuit of an empty glow.
Nobody will shake
When you are gone,
So brace yourself
And stay strong.
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