Be proud and others will try to rape your confidence,
Exude success and others will spoil for your riches.
Exist as beauty and others will abuse the pedastal upon which they place you,
Respect yourself and others will try to dismiss your integrity.
You burn their aspirations green and tear down that which is not you,
When they humiliate you, they shame themselves.
To yen for your presence which is so coveted,
They seeth envy for which is not within their reach.
As much as they destroy,
Without you, they would no longer exist.
Still they don't understand who will catch your tears,
As an icon you can break me, however only you will fall.
© Chase Allen
