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I finally got you to hear me out Showed you that you could be proud That I would one day amount To the person that you always wanted me to be I gave you everything I had to show Everything I had for you to see Something special and unique About plain old ordinary me Day after day you were my motivation Till it got to the point of starvation A hunger for not food itself But for your acceptance For your gift of health Because you were the air I breathed The things that made me awake from sleep Till through my fingers you started to seep You went right straight to what you could have first And then next after starvation came my thirst