Leveling Up

Truth is

No one owes me

A damn thing.

Those present

Want to be

Without obligation

Or expectation

Not from apathy

But from empathy-

Letting people "off the hook"

For being who they are

Rather than how

We want them

To be.

No longer with a

Sense of entitlement,

We're "Even Steven"-

Leveled-up

To what we never owed

Then, Now, and Forever...

Hafiz