Walk away

Leave me alone

You no longer have a home

 

My heart belongs

Not to you

This heart belongs to me

It is my only reality

 

Be gone, now

I need to live

My only goal

Is to thrive

You are dead

I am alive

 

Thank you, for all you’ve done

Because of you

I do survive

But I cannot stand

I refuse to be

Beholden to your mistakes

I am not the guilty one

 

You had your chance

You chose to dance

To your own tune

And now I choose

To apply the brakes

 

Against all odds

I chose to bloom

I banish you

I banish you!

I reject your pain

You may never know

Just what that takes

 

 

Me and you

We are not the same

Yes, your blood

Courses through my veins

But family is not all

That it may seem

 

You have haunted me

For far too long

But now I choose

Too release the scream

 

I beg you now

To leave my dreams

What’s good for me

Is good for you

 

It pains me

To say goodbye

But I am ready to relinquish

This ancestral scream

 

The time has come

To cut the cord

I have chosen

To break the cycle

My only hope

Is to set you free

In return I will claim

My right to be

Me

 

For far too long

We have co-existed

In a dysfunctional state

Characterized by denial

For my whole life

You have been on trial

But now I realise

It is getting late

 

 

I’ve been drowning

In this embryonic fluid

But I have the sword

I will brandish it

The time has come

To sever ties

I have had enough

Of the lies

 

I release you

From your sins

And, here is where

You end

And my life

Begins.

 

C.K.22