Better To Be On The Outside Looking In, Rather Inside Looking Out

Better to be on the
Outside looking in
Rather than
Inside looking out

Better to dream of
Something
Rather than be stuck with
Something else
Wishing for an escape

Better to have
Your options open
Your possibilities endless
Rather than stuck in a box
For society's sake

Better to be on the
Outside looking in
Rather than
Inside looking out

You wish
You hope
You pray
And with one wrong turn
You are stuck

You rationalize that
Behavior is normal
You rationalize that
Things will get better
You rationalize that
Love will make him nicer

NO NO NO NO NO My Dear
It simply isn't so

You learn to eat alone
You learn to be productive on your own
You learn to be content all alone

Then you discover talents you never had
You realize you can do things
Only creative types with their TV shows can do

You can paint
You can sew
You can write
And if necessary
You can fight

Fight, the operative word

Not with sticks and stones
But with resolve

You realize life is not over
But a new beginning

You find things that keep your attention

And for the first time
You are doing things
Not for some foreign rishta
But because you want to impress
Yourself

Then you slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Start to discover your worth

You hear experts on TV
You hear experts in high-end conferences
Then you realize
YOU are also the expert
YOU can very well be among them

Now your focus is on
Helping those
Who helped you
At your darkest hour

And helping yourself
By uncovering your strengths
And elevating yourself
As an expert and
Beyond

Then you slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Realize that
The people who put you down
When you were most innocent
Most vulnerable
Most afraid
Were themselves
Threatened
By your greatness

You may be a seed today
An intimidating little, tiny
Seed
And when these people
Put you down
When you are most innocent
Most vulnerable

They are burying the seed

Burying the seed
In the fertile ground
Of self-discovery

Then that seed becomes the
Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk