You'll Never Amount To Anything

 

Everything I know

came to me from somewhere

I can't remember

where or who

some things I recall

are from famous people

but its not fame

that made it

not wealth

so when I add my name

to a poem or a letter

I cannot say I created it.

Everything come from somewhere

other than my own mind

even if the words moved me

to write them in one place.

After hearing the words

"you'll never amount to anything"

I thought I would amount to

the voice of grief

then cross out the words

that hurt that are harsh

loud to dominate the moment

then soon realized it was impossible

and the older I got the more I learned

I didn't have to amount to anything

beyond kind, caring and human.