Sometimes

Sometimes I feel like...

I can not run any faster
Or
Live up to everyone else's expectations.

I feel as though...

You look beyond me at something more enticing
Like
I'm just another one of the 7 billion on the planet.

Other times it's as if...

All the joints and muscles in my body have begun to rust
As if
I'm so much older now & I've wasted my youth.

Occasionally My life resembles....

The machine that's broken
With
A piece that's left out or lost.

However

I know I am worth a sparkle of hope
Or
A sliver of imagination

Because

Even with all my faults, failures, fatigues and false starts...
I am important
And
I
Feel
Myself :)