I'm sorry to report
A gross misunderstanding
It seems I am a different person
Than you wanted me to be
I didn't follow a plan
I am simply me
It is a bad habit
Surely in your opinion
That I have not grown out of
To your eternal disappointment
But maybe I will
You've made hope's appointment
But I am so tired
Of apologizing
For my existence
That is the burden
I must forever repeat
Repentance for my sin
I'm afraid I cannot
Any longer supply
That so necessary employment
As you seem to deem it
Because this is my life
No matter how you demean it
Oh selfish plea
Greedy desire
I want my life
To be mine
Is it so wrong
If I whine
You gave me life
Why take it back
Is that really
What you want to ask
I could give you face
Yet you request the mask
I don't want to toil
At some useless task
I just want to try
And make my own mistakes
I don't want to throw myself
Away with all the fakes
I simply want
What I think to be my right
Yet you make it so hard
And I fade again into
The apologizer
Just trying to please you
