If I Fall, I'll Laugh And Insist I Didn't

They've been telling me for years that I have to be the best to succeed. Then they glare at me with judgmental eyes as I doubt every word they say.

Oh, success! Will you ever be mine?

They say that you wont.
They say that I've wasted my life away.
They say I'm too wild and crazy.
They say I need to care more.
They say I need a plan.
They say what I've heard a million times.

They feed me poison-filled lies so that I'll be feared into doing what they say.
For a while I fell for them.....

But not anymore.

I see now that everything I want to be is a failure in their eyes. Still, I'll come back and haunt them with my happiness. I'll baffle their tiny minds with everything I do. I'll amaze the world and they'll do nothing but watch and claim that it's all because they helped me along the way.

But I'll remember.

And if I never come back to baffle their minds, or haunt them with happiness or amaze the world, then I'll still remember and I'll try every single day for the rest of my life to prove them wrong.