What I feel about Expectations of Me
I suffer
from the attachment
of things I do not want
of things imposed unto me
from people who declare them best
Day after wretched day
relentlessly I try to break free
why do they wish that a bird learn to swim
I should be out there
swooping from unimaginable heights
only to rise up again like the winds
What has the Heavens decreed that I suffer this fate
To fulfill the dreams of others
and not my own
To carve up their monuments
and not my own
To carry out their words
and not my own
I understand that it maybe the best for me
but they fail to realize
that life doesn't exist in one road
and just because it is proven
doesn't mean it will work again
life is full of mystery
why do they fail to understand that
Why do they build their hope around me
and when I fail
they lash out in blind fury
as if I was the one who commanded them
I can't be all things but only be the one who is anything I can think of
and I think of myself
setting out in a path
free from hopes of me
but rather full of hope for me
in the days to come
in the nights to pass.
- Vic Pineda ft. Roy Arcilla