Until

• Until you’ve given your best and had it not be good enough,
• you couldn’t comprehend my lack of modivation.
• Until you’ve lost sight of your dreams,
• you haven’t lived with my hopelessness.
• Until you’ve counseled your parents through a near divorce,
• you haven’t felt my confusion.
• Until you’ve seen a grown man break down in tears,
• you don’t know my despair.
• Until you’ve watched the ones you love, slowly smoke their lives away,
• you haven’t experienced my sadness.
• Until you’ve heard the stongest women in your life say she’s ready to die,
• you couldn’t understand my devastation.
• Until you’ve fallen asleep thinking about the same girl each night since you met her,
• you wouldn’t know the depth of my passion.
• Until you’ve expressed your emotions and had them thrown back in your face,
• you wouldn’t understand my shyness.
• Until you’ve realized that the man you are supposed to resemble is nothing like you,
• you haven’t experienced my frustration.
• Until you’ve seen a friend die for no apparent reason,
• you can’t conceive my faithlessness.
• Until you’ve lived it my life,
• you don’t have any right to judge me.

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