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Good Enough
I hate that I’m never good enough.
 I hate that I try so hard and always fail.
 I hate that what I try to do does nothing 
 For who I am and who I try to be.
 Why can’t I be good enough?
 Why can’t I succeed?
 Why must I always fall so short of the goal 
 I try so hard to reach?
 Why is it I can never do enough?
 Am I weak?
 Am I insignificant?
 I don’t know the answers 
 But desperately I wish to know.
 What must I do to be good enough?
 What must I do to make people care?
 What must I do to make it all right?
 And how do I get there?
 How much longer must I struggle and fight?
 How much longer must I feel this way?
 Will the pain ever leave?
 Will I ever be good enough for those around me?
 Or will I always fail 
 Always come out on the bottom.
 These questions I want answered 
 But am not strong enough to do so.
 And maybe the questions are right.
 Maybe I am not good enough.
 Maybe I am weak.
 Maybe the people who tear me down have right too.
 I don’t know. 
 I don’t know myself.
 I don’t know my life
 I am a stranger. 
 My life is a stranger
 And I fear I will never
 
 Be Good Enough.

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