What I want
is for him to notice me.
What I want
is to get his respect.
I keep climbing
getting higher
closer to the goal
and he keeps ignoring me.
What IS that?

Why doesn’t he see
what I can do?
Why doesn’t he see
what I have become?
I can be so much more
if he sees me
if he allows me
if he gives me the respect
I think I have come to earn.

When will he give me
what should be mine
by now?
When will he let me grow?