'Be Somebody' That's what
they all say
but what it takes to be
'that person' varies from day to day
Be this, be that, but
according to what 'they' want me to be
I started off as a mere
nobody
And I am so thankful for my
Testimony
because once you lived in a
gutter
You lose the desire/ability
to look down on anybody
I went from being a nobody,
to trying to be somebody
according to all the things
that they told me I should be
and I wound up being scorned
none the less because
it's impossible to fit a
size 29 into a size 3
I am just me
I did not live up to their
expectations,
therefore I become nothing
more than a complication
And just like that I was
removed from their equation
And just like that I was a
nobody once again
It takes "HARD
WORK" they scream
to be somebody
Man I know, they got so many
self-help books
written on that very subject
and they must be right,
because they make money
off of others who see the
world
through eyes that long to be
above the mundane
They long to have authority
When we try to determine
what makes us 'worth it'
according to 'their' voices
without any kind of soul
searching
we lose our identity in the
process
and become good for nothing
I have found, that anybody
can be 'somebody'
but it takes something
special to have the bravery to be 'nobody'.
No one else can be this
nobody, but me
Only I can make me decrease
so He can increase
If I'm somebody of my own
making
everyone will only see me
I am nothing
He is all
The greatest part of me is
the Call
Call to worship
Call to praise
Call to bless that wonderful
Name
You go be somebody
I tried that and found
that just isn't for me.