Trophies

I gave you some trophies you didn’t deserve

Just because others gave them

And my shame might be revealed if I had none to give

But I hadn’t any

I wasn’t given

I sang your praise

Instead of shame

I said you were my hero

When you were my nemesis

That you flew me in the air

Without an airplane

That you clothed me in rich clothes

All the while naked and down

And by saying you were what you were not

I denied myself of my own awards

I died inside

But if the truth would be told

You broke me

You destroyed me

And stripped me of coverings

That I would have had

Still in the habit of giving false trophies

I excused your failures,

Maybe you would not have broken me

If you were not broken yourself

But now that that water is passing

I choose to take back my trophies

They are not for you

I am my own hero