This isn't what you wished
Upon that small baby
This isn't what you wished
This isn't the head you kissed
The head of that baby
This isn't what you kissed
This isn't what you held
The weight of that baby
This isn't what you held
This isn't what you smelled
The scent of that baby
This isn't what you smelled
This isn't what you felt
Felt for that baby
This isn't what you felt.
This isn't how it was supposed to be
This isn't what you imagined
This isn't what you meant me to see
The isn't what you'd bargained
This isn't the life you choose to live
This isn't the trust you chose to give
This isn't the love you once entrusted
This isn't the marriage to which you'd come in
This isn't the daughter you once knew
This isn't the love you walked into
This isn't the hope you'd had before
This isn't the love in fairytale's lore
This isn't at all what you expected
This isn't at all what you should have collected
This isn't the right end for an angel
This isn't, as it seems, quite so fatal
But this is me
Imperfect glory
Oh, this is me
With a sad, sad story
This is me
Timeless and dying
This is me
The blood I'm crying
This is me
The failure's jive
This is me
The end of a life
This is me
On sanity's cliff
This is me
Ready to drift
This is me
Desperate and wanting
This is me
Pretending and flaunting
Yes, this is me
Your youngest daughter
And it's not at all what you wanted
My dearest mother
This is me
The smoke, the pain
This is me
For loss, for gain
This is me
This is that baby
This is me
Now a young lady
This is me
Looking for love
This is me
Small and starstruck
This is me
On the wrong path
This is me
Treading on broken glass
This is me
Begging for help
This is me
****** to hell
This is me
Waiting to be saved
This is me
Turning away
This is me
Nearing Death's door
This is me
Saying I can take no more
This is me
With smoke in my lungs
This is me
Absorbing the sun
This is me
With knife in hand
This is me
Enjoying the land
This is me
Pleasing those men
This is me
Washing my hands
And this isn't what you wanted
And this is why you cry
And this isn't what I expected
And this is why I wish to die
Oh, this is why my mind is unclean
This is why you weep
This is why we couldn't foresee
And this is why I can't sleep
This is why the night is frightening
This is the absence of hope
Yet this is why we live
And this is why we cope
And this isn't life
This is unidentified
And this isn't strife
This is why we live and die
Maybe this is a maybe
Maybe this is uncertainty
Maybe this is a per say
Maybe this is you, is me
Yes, maybe this is human
Though this is inhumane
Maybe this is *******
And cannot be contained
Maybe maybe is uncertainty
Maybe maybe is insanity
Maybe maybe is a waste of hope
Maybe maybe is the knife at our throats
This is me
With a ring on my finger
This is me
With a kiss on my lips
This is me
With a love that lingers
This is me
With a sway to my hips
This is my reflection
So pretty, so ugly
This is my reflection
So imperfect, so me
This is life
Tiring and refreshing
This is time
A burden unrelenting
These are my friends
My children, my life
These are my friends
So perfect, so right
And this is pain
And this is gain
And this is love
And this is hate
And this is trust
And this is my place
But first
Foremost
This is me.