All the things I'll never say.

20: Footsteps.

I was following in your footsteps.
All I wanted was to be like you.
To never make you disappointed.

But then I realized how that made me unhappy.
How that harmed others around me.
How you never seemed to approve of what I'd done.

I had abandoned my dream to follow in your footsteps.
Forgotten who I really was to appease your image of a perfect daughter.

But not anymore...

I'm done following in your footsteps.
I'm done breaking my dreams for you.
I'm done letting you walk all over me, hoping that one day you'll approve.

I'm gonna retrace my footsteps.
Start from scratch.
Get my dreams and life back on track.

But I'm not gonna bother hiding every single crack.
They'll serve as a reminder so I won't go to far back....

Back to following in your footsteps.

[Poem-completed. This one is dedicated to my mom]