You Were Supposed To You were supposed to Try and break me You were supposed to Force me not to bend You were supposed to Challenge me Push me See how much drive Lives inside my bones You were the catalyst The pressure The force That turned the spark Into a raging fire You were supposed to And I thank you Every one of you Every person who questioned Who I am Every person who told me I should stay small Every person who made me Doubt myself I appreciate you Because you gave me Fortitude Unwavering Unstoppable A fire that doesn’t ask For permission A force that doesn’t wait For approval You were supposed to break me But you built me You were supposed to stop me But you moved me You were supposed to make me Question who I am But you made me Know who I am I am the spark I am the magic I have the vision I have the fire And I’ve spent so much time Waiting for somebody else To see what I see Waiting for somebody else To believe Waiting for somebody else To walk beside me But I don’t need you I needed you not to believe I needed the resistance I needed the doubt I needed every closed door Every no Every time you said “You can’t” Because every time You told me no Something inside me Said Watch me Every time You pushed me down Something inside me Rose Every time You tried to make me smaller I grew You were supposed to Try and break me You were supposed to Force me not to bend You were supposed to Challenge me And you did You were the pressure You were the fire You were the weight That showed me What I was made of So thank you For the resistance Thank you For the disbelief Thank you For not seeing my vision Because I was waiting For somebody else To see it When what I really needed Was to see it myself I don’t need your approval I don’t need your permission I don’t need your belief I believe in me I am the spark I am the magic I am the vision I am the fire And I do I DO I believe in me You were supposed to break me But you taught me how to burn You were supposed to stop me But you taught me how to run You were supposed to make me bend But I learned how to stand You were supposed to take my power But I took it in my hands And now There is no waiting There is no doubt There is no asking Who will help me out I see the vision I know the way And if nobody comes I’ll go anyway Because you were supposed to And you did And look at me now I believe I believe I believe In me. And I do!
