Mistakes are inevitable You can’t avoid or escape them They are the foundation of your growth You are a flower, they are your stem

This label I was handed left me alone and stranded because it doesn’t fit the real me this isn’t what I want to be

You think there’s so much wrong with you That no one could possibly accept the real you So you bury it all deep down below Where no one will ever be able to go But despite everything “wrong”, you can still sparkle Because you see, all of this is completely normal

Walking everywhere with a rain cloud overhead Struggling everyday just to get out of bed

Injury invisible to others hindering your ability to be who you were

Cast aside again and again and again and every single time you felt like nothing

Everything was beautiful Bright, happy, colorful Full of sparkling, magical wonder I started to smile again Thought that maybe I could fit in And the joy would chase away the thunder Gone were the storms I’d known for so long And I believed with my whole being that I could belong

I know how you feel that your problems are a burden and that you can’t ask that anyone else share them

I love the way you walk the way you move the way your emotions speak through you

I believed that I was rotten vile, so easily forgotten An evil creature right to the inside Made to be tossed aside It’s so easy to see that no one wants to be around me Broken, disgusting, creepy that’s how I learned to see me But maybe there is something more Maybe I can leap into the sky and soar