ACHES [Wattys Winner 2015]

Don't pity me

I don't ask for pity,

Just an understanding.

I don't ask you to feel bad for me,

I just want you to know, who I am,

Before you make decisions about my luck and success.

And that is why I told you my story,

ME, the sufferer and the survivor.

But you see,

It is such a weird world.

When you see me succeed,

You think it is all luck.

And when I tell you my story,

All you do is pity me.

Why don't you look in between?

Why don't you see me rise?

Why don't you just see, what I have seen?

Why make decisions about where I have been?

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