Please Myself Before I Can Please Others? Poem by Rainbow Ostrich

I ace a test? I could always work harder.
I help with the charity? There's still people starving around the world.
I wrote the best story of my life? It's always lacking something.
I look the best I can? I still don't look like one of those girls on Vogue magazine.

Why can't I just be good at everything?
Is it really this hard to please everyone at once?
Will I ever be able to take a comment without wanting to pull my hair out?
Can I live with someone thinking something terrible about me?

All I want to do is make someone proud.
All I want to do is make myself proud.
After every little cry
I snap out of it, and try again.

I start with baby steps
And crash and burn.
I'm like that little spider.

Climbing up the water spout,
Down comes the rain
And washes me all out.