Still Standing (Open Mic)

They say you can do anything

Whatever you dream

Biggie said, the sky is the limit

That you can be whatever you want to be

At least that is what your parents tell you to see

When secretly they expect you to fail

To never fulfill the dreams of playing sports, writing songs or making it to Yale

Society wants to win

To make you fall just before the finish line

Most do fall

Otherwise there would be a lot more people in the NFL, NBA, and acting on Broadway

People claim they aren’t good enough

But really all they're saying is, I stopped working hard enough

They gave up there child inside 

For hated weekdays 9-5

When it could have been, Monday night under the lights

You never hear the story about the guy who never made it

The guy who got cut from the team and gave up

The guy who settled for less

The guy who gave into the stress and never gave his best

The guy, who did what everyone does

Your parents expect you to fail because they too failed

They never made it big and so they see the same path for you

Only one, can write the pages of their life's journal

What will fill the pages are up to them
When Biggie said the sky is the limit, he really meant it

If you give it your all, through the good times and the bad

You will stand at the finish line of your childhood dream knowing that you broke the bell curve of mediocrity

Then you too, can write the inspiring fantasies we all read, but never truly believe
While everyone else has fallen, you will still be standing


-Corbin Wright