i demand of you this...

i demand of you this...
be better...
i demand that you rise above...
that you use your talents for more
than just enrichening yourself...
i demand that you be an example...
you are not living here alone...
you have much to offer...
if only by living the best you can...
i demand you stop for a moment...
give thanks for your blessings...
wallowing in self imposed pity,
is a waste of all that you are, all you can be...
i demand that you seek your destiny...
rather than wait for fate to push you round the corner...
examine your choices, learn from them, good or bad...
i demand much, oh, but wait...there's more...
i demand that you take what has shaken you to your core
and use it to build yourself back from the abyss of sadness...
this depression is a weak, meek excuse to be victim...
stop...take what you've learned and turn the ugly into beauty...
you have a compassion now borne from having been at the
front line of hard experience, whatever that experience may be...
i demand that you stand after having fallen, shake yourself off...
i demand all this, and so much unspoken more...
after all this, with audacity i ask but one more thing...a favor if you will...
i ask that you in turn, demand all that i have and so much unspoken more...
of me....