Be Who You Want

The people I have met
The places I have been
Are they possibly what made me?

Born in Arizona
I didn’t know where I was going
But now I am here

I did not choose
All the negatives
That shaped and molded myself

I traveled cross country
To be here, to be me
So why does my journey feel incomplete?

I scuffled a path forward
In which I believed
The one that would succeed

A troubled mind
Has been all to kind
In the life of Wiley

Because you will find
And keep in mind
A young crippled boy

This boy to the eye
Does not seem crippled
But what does this mean?

What’s holding him back
Is only internal
The illness of doubt you see

He wants to go
Where no man has gone
But he keeps on singing the song

The same song
The broken record played
When he said those words that day

But once he realized
What needed to be done
He made a pact

Be who you want to be
The only one who is stopping you
Is the fear of what is true

What is the truth?
It’s who I used to be
A kid named Wiley

That crippled boy
Is soon the past
Of a great Man to be

It’s not who I’ve met
It’s not where I’ve been
It’s where I intend to go
And who I bring.