The weight of your expectation is becoming my ruination
Please
Set me down gently
From this pedestal
You have invented to prop me up

This perfection you seek
Is not within me
Clueless to what is truly living inside this shell
No matter it's pretty disguise
You are merely feeding
An unexpected pretension
That is leaking so soon
Before it's time

While I fly here
You do not recognize these blemishes
The scars, the wrinkles of life
Which I cannot even express to you
Past and present
Imagined or otherwise
Trust me that you do not want this
You cannot see through it
Even if you are a super hero

What so I shall fall?
The bricks would be crushing to your ego
The mortar stuck between my ribs
My shattering will be my own
Whether my desire or not

Unearned shiny compliments
Are not enlightening
They are strangling me
Smothered over, muffled voice
And I will inevitably let you down
Once I am free

Please set me down gently
Back to earth
Where I could linger
And figure
It out.