Acceptance

In the eyes of someone homeless

On a sidewalk late at night

Or the look a boxer has

When he knows hes lost the fight

When a little girl is mocked

Because her clothes are "wrong"

Or a vocalist is booed

When he messes up the song

In the look a woman has

When her clothes are just too tight

Or a skeptical believer

Who is searching for the light

When a tear falls down her face

As her boyfriend walks away

Or the bully of the class

Has nothing left to say

In the widow with the cats

Who lives at home alone

Or the workaholic man

With no family of his own

When the redhead kid with glasses

Looks into the mirror

Or the newly pregnant teen

Cannot hide her fear

There lies a sense of failure

And hidden sense of shame

In the scoreboard that is life

They think they lost the game

Sometimes it's a challenge

To be happy how we are

And accept our person wholly

Each bruise and every scar

I believe the hardest battle

Is the one we fight within

And often times we feel

Like its impossible to win

Something else is always better

Someone else is always first

When others get the best

You seem to get the worst

But life is full of struggles

With some downs along the way

Now and then we only hope

To make it through the day

Each part of who we are

Is important to our being

And sometimes it is hard

To realize what we're seeing

If we give ourselves a chance

We just might come to see

The person that we are

Is the greatest thing to be

-C. O'Connell-