DrGray003's Daily Dose Of Poems

19. Slave To Expectations

Opinions are the common merit
One we use to measure our worth
The scale that we weigh ourselves
The court that we judge ourselves
One where we are also the victim
The victim who falls victim
To our own verdicts

We become our own worst critic
We disregard our own efforts
Like an equestrian is to horses
We put ourselves down
When we fail to reach the bar
On the scale that we self-measure

We set the bar so high
We set ourselves up for failure
So we can then persecute ourselves
By opinions that do not belong
To ourselves
Yet somehow become the merit
That we sweat so much to obtain

We expect too much of ourselves
We Judge ourselves just as much
When we fail to reach
The expectations that we set
To achieve for ourselves
No logic behind these expectations
Yet we set them either way

There's no harm in dreaming
Yet there's harm in ignorance
Reality should be the standard
That our expectations abide by
All can aim for the sky but
Only those with planes
Can hope to reach it

There's no harm in having expectations for yourself
There's harm in unrealistic ones
There's no harm in respecting opinions of others
There's all harm in respecting
The wrong opinions from them
Especially when these opinions
Become your expectations