Dealing With Expectations Poem by Vikas Sharma

Dealing with expectations

Expectations
Fairly decent
Not quite high
Expecting good things
For self from other beings
And best of life
Is what for I strife

Then slowly but surely
Things start falling apart
Expectations are no more expectations
But full-fledged demands

Demands which take their toll
Have on its own evolved
I fall short
Of what I wished to be
Situations go astray
As nothing is going my way
People are letting me down
For they fail to live up
To my expectations which
Are in the shape of demands now
What to do and how?

I wallow in self-pity
Anger has its uncertainty
I retaliate
Making worse of bad
Wishing I never had
Expected

Expected too much
Or was it way little
Blame is the game
Hunting for the name
Anger, pity, hatred grow
Inside I feel so low

Screaming and crying inside
I go glum outside
Then came a noble soul
To take me out of the hole

Told me where did my fault lie
Somewhere I never cast my eye
Inside me are twins alright
One enormous other slight

One named ‘want' desire more
Other ‘content' share more
I fed my wants
And out of it expectations grew
And when did they turn into demands
Little did I knew

Feeding the content
Is harder he told me
For joy of sharing it beget
And pleasure of giving ever experience thee