It's because I feel a need to live up to this standard 

A bar set by my elders, 

To make them proud,

To be successful, 

And to always strive for more 

 

That I feel as if my self-worth is not grand

On the outside there's a young women, who stands four feet eleven inches from the ground 

On the inside, lives that young women whose height reaches the sky

 

There is more that I believe I can accomplish

But if I let myself feel as though everything I do in the present, 

Is only for the future to fix the past, 

Then what does the present mean to me? 

 

I have learned to love and to find hope in places I've never looked

I have learned to trust and believe in things I never knew

I have learned that none of us have control,

That we exist among one another, 

And that we must love and appreciate one another, 

For who we are now. 

 

The person I am inside has come out because I, 

Believe, because I, 

Hope, because I, 

Have let myself,

Be myself.