You Don't Have To Be Everything

A promise was made to our elders, by our hopes and dreams
A promise that we knew was in vain, in agony it used to scream
A promise which we made just to see them happy, but not one smile we could see
A promise of let down that was brought upon by you and me
We have been in this crisis and we are not safe
For the mind that we have, is the one to blame
Where we want to be everything, which leaves us in bits
Where expectations grow up and harder as it gets
Where we are smiling, but our mind is running to and fro
Where our shadows start whispering and no one seems to know
Where we tend to break down, lock the window and shut the door
Turn the speakers up so loud that cries could be disguised by our glow
But why do we have to try?
When we are doing it for someone else and not for our own mind
When will you stop giving everything up for somebody else and not for your own insights?
I say, why should we try?
When we can do something we are best at
Rather than to do something we are just good at
If you do it, give it your heart and soul
Do it until you take control
Do it until there are people looking up to you
Do it as if it is the only thing that you are left with to do
Do it till it runs in your veins
Goes through your lungs, drives you insane
Do something that you can fall in love with
Not just something that you fill your empty cup with
Money, I get it, is a factor
But your satisfaction is a bigger one
Because we are sick of running in circles along with a thousand others
Let’s just turn around and face the crowd
Let’s just be your dream and not what others need
A promise made to ourselves and not someone else’s greed