Unapologetically Me

How sad would it be

To live a life that’s not for me

To make myself seem less, more slight

So I don’t dim another’s light

How sad would it be

To live a life that’s not for me

To always wear a practised face

While truth dissolves without a trace

How sad would it be

To live a life that’s not for me

To place their joy above my own

And keep my quiet dreams unknown

How sad would it be

To live a life that’s not for me

To silence every inner call

To build my cage and fear it all

But sadder still, I think, would be

To never claim the life in me

To dim my light, to shrink, to bend

And let that be me in the end

So maybe sad is not the way

But rather brave to choose to stay

In truth, in growth, in all I am

Unfolding still, without a plan