Persistent I focus on growth,
you cannot help but complain.
Much of my life, it’s been the same.
Never enough
Or the wrong time,
Too much,
too soon.
You find the most inopportune moments as if you are searching for a clue.
Mysteriously problems arise,
My fault, in your eyes.
Chastise me as your child,
In which I am.
Except I am grown.
Stifling my creativity
learning
it’s my time to go.
No pointing fingers but is it because of you my inner child refuses to grow?
Pushing her down to size with every no.
There’s this fire pleading from inside.
Tired of being shoved,
made to hide.
Grappling with confusion
your love is no illusion,
yet toxic,
chaining me to who I long to un-become.
It isn’t my will to be done.
Stepping out of my own way,
I am being shown the sun.
All the possibilities frighten any notion of me not by your side.
I deserve a sense of pride.
It’s time you let me off this ride.
Mom,
please set me free so I can learn to be me.
You accomplished fixing me the most you could.
But the time has come,
As I knew it would.
And now I go
with one foot in front of the other,
discovering myself
on this long, desolate road.
You did your best and it has come time
I do the rest.
Guided by your wisdom,
I must leave the nest.
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