I want to be
the person I’m going to be
tomorrow
I want to be that person
today
Because it’s a long way
to tomorrow
because the steps from yesterday
that I figured out today
led to the learning
I’m still waiting for
a chance to use
It’s hard to look
it’s hard to see what I can learn
it’s hard to wait
for a chance to try again
tomorrow
It’s hard to wait for tomorrow
and remember how good I did
figuring out today
Everywhere I turn
there I am waiting
to undo me
The world fights me
so do I
mind that wills its own
body that acts alone
I step forward
then it is I
who pushes back
I will battle this me
the one I insist
is to be the me that was
I will battle this me
for the sake of me
who struggles on
Again I fall
for this self I thought I knew
is not I that is now
The me I am
turned out to be
again
not the I
I want to be
The I I try so hard
to become
Another round
more learning
and another myself I meet for the first time
again
The cycle
it takes so much
to fall
to rise
to learn again
The cycle
is so hard
to fall
to rise
and wait to fall again
On the other side of now
now that it is then
afterwards
after the learning
I expect other people now
to know what I
when I was where they are now
could not know then
Looking out
I expect so much
of them
now
Now that it is afterwards
after the learning
I look back and see me then
and what I did not know then
I look out now and expect so much
of others
what then would I expect now
of me then
what would I have me do
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