Despicable Me

Despicable Me

You care too much

You don't care enough

You ruin everything that you touch

You're self absorbed

You've no self esteem

You're cocky, angry, vindictive and mean

You squander your talent

You'll never succeed

You really should learn

To control all your greed

These are things heard on a frequent basis

So I think it's about time to face this

The fact of the matter

Is I never said

I was perfect, saintly, and never see red

That I never get jealous,

I never lose hope,

My faith doesn't hang by the end of a rope

I never implied

I was perfectly sane

That everything's kosher

Inside of my brain

That I never do anything that I regret

That I am a portrait of what you can respect

I'm perfectly willing to confess

That I freak out when under distress

And what you consider a minor thing

To me is an attack of my very being

I'm the first one to turn tail and run

Because none of the battles I've fought have I won

But can you really say

That you have no faults?

That you never feel inferior, wounded or lost?

Have you spoken in haste

When you should have calmed down

Or said something to someone that got twisted around?

I know the answer has to be yes

But yet I am the one who's measured as less

There are people out there

Who steal from strangers' homes

Cheat others their profits; let them suffer alone

I'm always the first

To help a mate in a jam

Or tell an insecure person If they try, then they can

You may not see all this

From an outsider's view

All you see at a glance is what I look like to you

At a shallow perspective

On a computer screen

You sit back in your chair and tell me I'm mean

Even though over time I have realized

That I may need some work to self actualize

And I should learn patience

Have faith all along

It's still not a stranger's job

To tell me I've gone wrong

If you look in a mirror

And truly assess

You'll see you're no better than any of the rest

You too have shortcomings

Quirks and faults

And it's not for you to teach me what I ought

So look at this world

At the corruption around

Turn on the news, and turn up the sound

And then I guarantee you

You're bound to see

There are people way worse...

than Despicable Me.